Hi there,
I have a Sony laptop with Windows Vista as operating system.
The system crashed. So I initialised a new start via CTRL,
ALT and DEL. Unfortunately, the shut down process got stuck
and the screen just displays "shut down" without doing anything.
It remained like this for a couple of minutes when I hold the
turn-on/off button pressed. I was expecting to force my laptop
to restart again (which is the usual case on a Windows XP machine).
However, my laptop just went to the stand-by modus. Pressing
the turn-on/off gave back the frozen display of "shut down".

Could anyone please advise on how to force my laptop with Vista
to restart again?

Thanks a lot!!!

On Oct 23, 6:38*am, William Watterson <william_watter...@web.de>
wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi there,
> I have a Sony laptop with Windows Vista as operating system.
> The system crashed. So I initialised a new start via CTRL,
> ALT and DEL. Unfortunately, the shut down process got stuck
> and the screen just displays "shut down" without doing anything.
> It remained like this for a couple of minutes when I hold the
> turn-on/off button pressed. I was expecting to force my laptop
> to restart again (which is the usual case on a Windows XP machine).
> However, my laptop just went to the stand-by modus. Pressing
> the turn-on/off gave back the frozen display of "shut down".
>
> Could anyone please advise on how to force my laptop with Vista
> to restart again?
>
> Thanks a lot!!![/color]

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Unplug it. Wait a couple minutes, plug in, then turn it on. You'll
probably get a screen that asks what to do. Click on "start windows
normally".

Bill

"William Watterson" <william_watterson@web.de> wrote in message
news:f2cda12d-3c47-447a-8d1a-4f85636b8412@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> Hi there,
> I have a Sony laptop with Windows Vista as operating system.
> The system crashed. So I initialised a new start via CTRL,
> ALT and DEL. Unfortunately, the shut down process got stuck
> and the screen just displays "shut down" without doing anything.
> It remained like this for a couple of minutes when I hold the
> turn-on/off button pressed. I was expecting to force my laptop
> to restart again (which is the usual case on a Windows XP machine).
> However, my laptop just went to the stand-by modus. Pressing
> the turn-on/off gave back the frozen display of "shut down".
>
> Could anyone please advise on how to force my laptop with Vista
> to restart again?
>
> Thanks a lot!!![/color]

Remove the power source. Mains cable and don't forget to remove the
battery.

On 23 Oct, 13:58, "who?" <ds...@sdasfvrrrrrnnnnrrrrsfffff.invalid>
wrote:[color=blue]
> Remove the power source. Mains cable and *don't forget to remove the
> battery.[/color]

Thanks! I was thinking of taking out the battery
(after unplugging the laptop from the socket).
However, would it damage the laptop if I take out
the battery while the laptop is still in stand-by
modus?

"William Watterson" <william_watterson@web.de> wrote in message
news:f64dae92-38ac-42e1-96c5-03426ed32a00@l31g2000vbp.googlegroups.com...
On 23 Oct, 13:58, "who?" <ds...@sdasfvrrrrrnnnnrrrrsfffff.invalid>
wrote:[color=blue]
> Remove the power source. Mains cable and don't forget to remove the
> battery.[/color]
[color=blue]
>Thanks! I was thinking of taking out the battery
>(after unplugging the laptop from the socket).
>However, would it damage the laptop if I take out[color=green]
>>the battery while the laptop is still in stand-by[/color]
>modus?[/color]

There will be no problem