slk2k Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 I've got a Win2K box running Retrospect 5.6 and I am using a VXA-1 firewire drive. All goes well on the backup and the system tries to shutdown the computer, but I see a "It is now safe to powerdown the computer." screen. I've never seen that on Win2K before. When I select "shutdown" via the Start button, the Win2K shuts down and the computer powers itself off. Known flaw? Shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slk2k Posted July 23, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2002 Since some mant responses came in .... :-) I decided to see if I could solve the problem another way. I located the "shutdown.exe" command from the Win2K resource kit and tried to use that. I was going to schedule it to run a few hours after the backup should have finished. When I ran the command, I got the same screen again, so i think I fall under the "not all machines can be shutdown via an external application" batch. What I don't understand is how M$ is able to shutdown (and powerdown) the PC when I choose shutdown from the start button, but I can't do it from any other application. Probably more of the propriatary interfaces in their OS....... Shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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