XP Home does a reboot 5 seconds after shutdown
 

If I use Start -> Turn off computer -> Shutdown computer on my laptop, it shuts down and then reboots a few seconds later and I have to press the power key momentarily at bootup to stop this. Micro$oft website recognises this as a problem if you have Easy CD installed, but I don't have it on this laptop.

Any ideas? It's been doing this for > 1 year, so a system restore would be poor choice, I think

Re: XP Home does a reboot 5 seconds after shutdown
 

Have you installed any new hardware over the last year or so?

Re: XP Home does a reboot 5 seconds after shutdown
 

No, it has the same hardware that it was purchased with

Re: XP Home does a reboot 5 seconds after shutdown
 

Have you had a look in the Power options in Control Panel?

Re: XP Home does a reboot 5 seconds after shutdown
 

Are you sure that it isn't rebooting due to an error?? Have you got xp set to reboot automatically? If so it might be hitting an error as it shuts down.
You should also check in the bios that it's not restarting through a setting for wake on lan etc.
There is a registry adjustment that can stop the reboot problem if it's a registry setting error...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/poweroff.vbs from
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm is one.
if that doesn't work then we may have to dig a little deeper

Re: XP Home does a reboot 5 seconds after shutdown
 

I'll have a look over the weekend, Thanks.
which is also when I'm re-installing Windows on another machine.

poo

Re: XP Home does a reboot 5 seconds after shutdown
 

Go to control panel, system and then the advanced tab. Goto the third box (system and recovery) and press 'settings'

Click the tab that says 'advanced' and you'll see a section called 'system faliure'. Uncheck the box that says 'automatically restart'.

What this does (as the name implies) is stop XP restarting your computer when it hits an error on shutdown. With this switched off you'll be likely to get a blue screen of death when you next shutdown - but it will tell you what the offending article is - which will help you find a solution.

HTH