That's exactly what I tried. It used to work until I had to reformat the PC
and reinstall Vista. I used the Dell recovery disc and all and have already
updated my PC with all current patches for Vista, MS Office, as well as other
hardware drivers, etc.

"Michael Walraven" wrote:
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> Dell XPS 410, Vista Home Premium
> At Power options, (change plan settings for the current active plan) Power
> buttons and lid, Start menu power button, select shutdown works for me!
> Color of start menu button changes and mouse over says will Close all
> programs, shut down windows and turn off.
>
> I know this doesn't explain your problem but it does work for a least some
> systems.
>
> Michael
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