It is safe to turn off computer?

[firewolf]

It's winter holidays for me i'm just messing around with creating programs and what not. i wanted to be able to shut down my remote computer in the other room from my computer here. fortunately i got it to work. however, it shuts down weird. it doesnt completely shut down, yet it brings me to the splash screen where it says "it is safe to turn off your computer now". but if i go to 'Start Menu>Turn Off>Shutdown' i don't come across that screen? If i do the same thing on this computer here (I'll call 'this comptuer here Computer A and the remote computer Computer B) on computer A i try the same method and i do not receive the message that its safe to turn off my computer. on computer A i have winxp home and computer B has winxp pro. the method i'm using to shutdown the comps are running a shortcut that leads to the shutdown.exe app in the system32 folder by shutdown.exe -s -t 3

anyone know how to get rid of that screen?

[GroundZero3]

http://www.tech-forums.net/computer/topic/4323.html

[HeadBand]

look for a setting in your cmos it should be near the wake on lan setting

[firewolf]

GroundZero, thank you for the link i found that i dont have "Stardard PC" option rather the "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System" option. And my comp is an off-brand so i guess i have to track down the bios myself and im a noob so i wouldnt have any luck with that. and not to frustrate you, i did try

Headband, i should look for setting in my 'cmos'? i do not know what cmos are

[Starfury_2260]

the cmos is what holds configuration information on your motherboard. when he says to look for a setting in your cmos he means to open up the configuration screen that you can access when the system is starting up, the key to do this is usually delete or a function key. some systems will show what key to press when starting up, by saying "press delete (or whatever it is) to enter bios (the configuration settings)". when you press the correct key it should come up with a list of different settings groups. search through those for stuff about power settings or something like that.

[cyber`]

Originally Posted by firewolf

It's winter holidays for me i'm just messing around with creating programs and what not. i wanted to be able to shut down my remote computer in the other room from my computer here. fortunately i got it to work. however, it shuts down weird. it doesnt completely shut down, yet it brings me to the splash screen where it says "it is safe to turn off your computer now". but if i go to 'Start Menu>Turn Off>Shutdown' i don't come across that screen? If i do the same thing on this computer here (I'll call 'this comptuer here Computer A and the remote computer Computer B) on computer A i try the same method and i do not receive the message that its safe to turn off my computer. on computer A i have winxp home and computer B has winxp pro. the method i'm using to shutdown the comps are running a shortcut that leads to the shutdown.exe app in the system32 folder by shutdown.exe -s -t 3

anyone know how to get rid of that screen?

This info helped me

Computer doesn’t power down when users shut down

In some cases, Windows XP’s Setup program can misidentify the power management scheme in a computer’s BIOS as Advanced Power Management (APM) instead of Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI). When this happens, users will notice that the computer no longer automatically powers down when they shut down Windows XP. Instead, they’ll see the message It Is Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer and they'll be forced to manually press the power button to turn off the computer.

To check the power management configuration in Control Panel, open the Control Panel from the Start menu. If the system is using Category View, select Performance And Maintenance and then click the Power Options icon. If the system is using Classic View, just click the Power Options icon. If Setup identified the system as having an APM-compliant BIOS, you’ll see an APM tab in the Power Options Properties dialog box. (If the system were identified as having an ACPI-compliant BIOS, you wouldn’t see an APM tab.)

Right hopefully you can see the APM tab all I did was enable/tick the box "Enable Advanced Power Management support" & all works fine shuts down no problem
regards cyber`