Having problem shutting down. Computer freezes when process gets to Windows shutting down. have to use the power button to complete shut down. Help!!!

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Try going to your power option in the control panel. Make sure that hibernate is disabled, change what power buttons do. Make sure when you press power button it is set to shut down. Choose when computer sleeps as never.

Hit control alt delete and look and see how many running programs you, most of the time it is a background running program that locks up the shut down process. On average you should have only 60 to 70 programs running. Reduce these and your start ups and shut downs will be much quicker, there are third party software that can enable you to do this with ease, or you can search google .

The buttons can be set to do what you want, so look in the control panel under power options, typically you want advanced options or words like change what the power buttons do.

Hi,
You can try go to Start - Control Panel - Power Options and check what you want computer do when you close the lid of your laptop. Fix that and restart laptop to apply the setting.
If the boot up not complete and restart by itself, in my opinon, there is something wrong on the start up process, could be hardware malfuctions, could be a software not compatible. Try check the start up process to see.(use Start- Run: msconfig)
If this happen often, you should call the Samsung customer services to find out. Laptop i3 should still under warranty.

Hope this will help.
Thanks for reading

Hello,

Press and hold the power button for 5-10 seconds and this should shut down the computer. If not, you may want to switch the power supply on the back of the computer to off to shut the computer down.

Regards,
G33k

Something is not closing on exit. Try running in safe mode, then shut down. If it shuts down then something is loading and present in the taskbar which isnt closing down.

Is the computer taking forever to shutdown in the blue screen or is it something else. Perhaps try closing the applications running with the system to help the process speed up and actually work without the usage of the power button.

If you are turning off your computer by pressing the front panel power button, it is probably just putting Windows to sleep but not shutting the computer off. If your computer has Windows Vista, the default is to hibernate and not shut down even if you shut down through Vista. The "power save" message you see is coming from the monitor, which is letting you know it isn't getting a signal from the computer anymore but the power is still on. Windows will start up again from sleep mode if someone or something moves the mouse or presses a key.

The solution is to make sure the computer is actually shut down. In Vista you can do this by clicking the arrow near the power icon on the Start menu. This gives you the option of shutting down instead of hibernating. In XP, shut the computer down using the start menu shutdown option instead of the computer power button. Then the power will shut down completely.

In your case,

the most simplest way to shut down your laptop is to override your processing by simply holding down the shutdown button until your computer turns off (do this when all your work is saved and the "Windows is shutting down" mode is on your screen).

This idea is not recommended but will always work.




Hope I helped

- donman92