why does my windows xp shutdown automatically?
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either you have a virus or you have defined an automatically shutdown. check in system control / energy options what's defined. deactivate standby modus if activated.
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In cases like this either you have some hardware problem or a very major software issue. The reason windows reboots is to stop damage from occuring to your system. My advice would be either to identify what is causing the error. \n\nHave you recently installed any new software or made any configuration changes or installed a new hardware on your system. Undo those changes to see if the error occurs.  Also try starting windows in safe mode usually by presseing the F8 key when windows is booting and see if you can get windows operating system to load. I am not fully certain but with windows xp you can do a repair of the operating system with out having to fully re-install windows. What I am not sure of is whether this will delete your saved files or still keep them. Hope fully someone here can answer that  \n\nHope this helps
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shutdown the computer by holding in the power button about 30 seconds. there are gears that control the movement of the tray of the cd rom, if it doesnt work after restarting just buy a new one they are not economical to repair
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you are probably running out of memory.  windows xp is a huge memory hog.  when a computer runs out of RAM it starts storing information on the hard drive in what's called virtual memory.  the hard drive is several orders of magnitude slower than regular RAM and it brings your computer to a grinding halt.  if you were running xp before without any problems, and after reinstall this is going on, you probably have some features turned on by default that were off before.  go through your system control panel and turn off all the whiz-bang graphical doodads and junk like that you don't need.
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i have found its the upgrades getting sorted out as i'am shutting down causes my system to hang or after a defrag \nif after i have upgraded and used my pc to do something else it shuts down properly
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Simple answer: Yes.\n\n\nA little more complex answer: If you screwed with your registry without knowing what you are doing, do yourself a favor and reinstall windows.  Registry can and will cause a computer to go into shutdown.  If you want to go through some ahssel, try to do a system restore to take you back to before this problem happened
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If your running Windows XP, then you must have some special hardware or software problem, because Microsoft finally gave the consumer a quality operating system with the introduction of Windows XP. It has important crash ("blue screen") protection designs, just like the professional operating systems Microsoft produces like Windows XP professional and Windows 2000/NT etc.\nSo first, run all the AdWare SE, AVG AntiVirus, and Registry diagnostic programs (Registry Mechanic) to wring out those devils and demons in your software (download.com). Also, I recommend installing ZoneAlarm's freeware firewall.\nNext, make sure you have at least 256 MByte or more of RAM and plenty of spare hard drive space (100's of Megabytes minimum). Then make sure your hard drive isn't "fragmented". If so, run Microsoft's de-fragmenter.\nFinally, download a freeware utility program like\nhttp://www.glarysoft.com/quick-startup/\nwhich allows you to turn off programs that automatically load when you reboot your computer and may be conflicting with one another (those icons in the lower right corner called the "tray"). GlarySoft also offers registry troubleshooting and repair. Try turning off as many tray icons as possible and see if you still have the crashes.
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Same thing happened to me. If you see the screen in the beginning and then it turns off, it's because you changed the settings. The only thing I could do was reboot the hard drive with a fresh copy of XP and adjust the settings differently.
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This usually happens when Windows XP is busy with another applications or processes.  Sometimes wait awhile will get it back, but more often a restart should fix the problem.
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pop in your xp disc  when the screen comes up choose r then type in chkdsk /r it should fix it  or start unplugging your cards one at a time to see if one of them is bad
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If the machine is XP then you can create a scheduled task to run shutdown.exe (found in %windri%&#92;system32) and set it to wait until the system has been idle for whatever length of time.  To do so, Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks -> Add Scheduled Task.  Select the shutdown app in system32 and add the "-s" switch after it (no quotes).  Select daily and any time after the current time plus some (so it doesn't execute while you're setting it up).  Then enter credentials of a local admin account and on the last page of the wizard, enable the checkbox for advanced settings.  On the Schedule tab, change it from Daily to When Idle and set the time you want it to wait.
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Because you are starting the process of shutting down your computer.  If you never started this process, your computer would never shut down.
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Good information to help you resolve this would be:  new or used computer?  It could be shutting down for a multitude of reasons...  The first to come to mind is temperature.  Most motherboards shut down a few degrees before the processor's thermal breakdown point.  You may want to see that your heatsink is seated on the processor properly, and that any and all fans are functioning.\n\nAnother common culprit would be a virus.  Look for a free program that will let you do a boot time scan of your system.
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the computer turns off, because you might be eitehr using MS windows 2000 or MS Windows XP service pack 1 which had lot of errors. USe MS_windows XP Service PAck 2 for the computer to run better. Hope it solves your problem, enjoy.
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Your processor is fast enough and you definetly have enough memory to run Windows XP, but maybe you're trying to run too many resource-hogging programs. Try to not open too many programs at once, so you don't overload your computer. If you don't open many programs, maybe there are spyware programs installed on your computer that hog resources away from your CPU. Try installing one of the anti-spyware programs listed on the site below and running a full scan on system:\nhttp://www.download.com/sort/3150-8022_4-0-1-4.html?\n\nAfter you've ran the scan, delete all the spyware, if any, that the program finds.\n\nIf none of the solutions above solve your problem, you need to describe at what istance your computer hangs (i.e what programs are you running? Did a certain program cause your computer to hang?).\n\n\nGood luck!
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you will need to check your settings, some times the computer is set up to shut down if it encounters a fatal error or " BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH"  do this  ...right click on START, PLACE YOU MOUSE POINTER ON ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS, THEN  RIGHT-CLICK ON EVENT VIEWER, THEN RIGHT -CLICK ON  APPLICATION OR SYSTEM, it will have a warning sign that says something about whats causing you shutdown, you might have to research the answer through  THE HELP SYSTEM IN WINDOWS or on microsoft .com or you  right-click on START, put your mouse pointer on CONTROL PANEL, then right-click on  SYSTEM , then right-click on ADVANCED, go down to START-UP AND RECOVERY and check your settings, where it says SYSTEM FAILURE, make sure AUTOMATIC RESTART is unchecked. and that WRITE A EVENT TO THE SYSTEM LOG and SEND A ADMINISTRATIVE ALERT is checked. then try again, a error should show up explaining the problem so you can use the WINDOWS TROUBLE SHOOTER. to solve this problem.
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shut down and return?\nOr leave your computer on and return? It could be a whole host of problems. Thats not enough information to really go on.