Vista Shutdown and reboot

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David Sherman

How can I tell when a Vista shuts down?

Event logs don't show a thing. Actually, the log files show no
activity when there was acticity.

thanks
 
Hmm.. generally you can tell when it's shut down when you press the keyboard
a bit and it doesn't seem to "wake up" :oP

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When I turned the monitor off, the machine was running a virus scan.
Normally if the machine is idled for a while, the machine is locked
and I have enter a password, and the machine takes about 30 seconds to
get back to normal.
This time, I had to log in after I turn the machine on and it took
abot 3 minutes to get back to normal with all the icons.

Why do i know it rebooted.. When the machine is locked and restarted,
I dpn't get the APC software being loaded. When the machine reboots,
that software has to load.
 
APC has a beta software for Vista on their site. also change your perameters
to never shut off hdd. and set your monitor to desired sleep modes. Look
for a file called : PowerChute Personal edition (Version 2.11.15.0)
 
David Sherman said:
When I turned the monitor off, the machine was running a virus scan.
Normally if the machine is idled for a while, the machine is locked
and I have enter a password, and the machine takes about 30 seconds to
get back to normal.
This time, I had to log in after I turn the machine on and it took
abot 3 minutes to get back to normal with all the icons.

Why do i know it rebooted.. When the machine is locked and restarted,
I dpn't get the APC software being loaded. When the machine reboots,
that software has to load.

Although I don't know what you're looking at to conclude "the APC
software is loading" (or if you're just presuming that where the time
went).

But your observation of "walked away, came back, and it took more than
the normal amount of time to unlock" sounds like the default Vista
behavior.

Even on desktop machines, the default power configuration lets
machines go to a "sleep" state after 30 minutes, IIRC. "Sleep" to my
understanding being a hybrid of "suspend first, and then if they don't
unsuspend for a while, go to full hibernation".

So when "waking your machine back up", you can even end up seeing the
text-mode "Windows is loading..." screen, although it actually says
"Windows is resuming..." or something to that effect because the
machine is coming back from hibernation.

Power control panel applet lets you change those times/defaults, such
as to "Never" if that's your preference.

Alan Adams
 
If a machine does to "sleep", I have to type in my password and
Vista's desktop is back and I am ready to "rock and roll".

My question remains: If the machine reboots by itself or my some
software request, shouldn't the event log show this request?

By see the APC software logo loading tells me that my machine
rebooted.

Thus the question remain: Is the event log of Vista defective?
 
David Sherman said:
If a machine does to "sleep", I have to type in my password and
Vista's desktop is back and I am ready to "rock and roll".

My question remains: If the machine reboots by itself or my some
software request, shouldn't the event log show this request?

By see the APC software logo loading tells me that my machine
rebooted.

Thus the question remain: Is the event log of Vista defective?

Don't know what does or should be there in response to any arbitrary
application requesting a shutdown.

At least on 5365 x86 I do see entries related to startup (after the
shutdown, regardless of why one occurred). In the "System" event log
(of "Global Logs" on Vista), events like 6009 where the type of
HAL/kernel starting up is recorded. So it would seem like you should
be seeing "something", even if its not the actual shutdown event.

Using the SHUTDOWN.EXE utility to restart the system did log to the
"System" event log (a 1074 event from "USER32"), but this is possibly
more specific to the SHUTDOWN.EXE itself rather than "always true".

Alan Adams
 
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