Following a recent re-install of XP on a old computer I use occaisionally everything works ok but when you tell it to turn off it closes everything down but doesn't actually turn off, gives the windows screen saying "it is ok to turn your computer off now". It always used to do a full shut down, what do I need to do to get it to turn off properly, can't find anything under Power Management?

I had this once

I think i had to go into the bios and change "ACPI" settings or something similar

Hope this helps

Regards

Frank

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810903

Google?

Hope it helps....

you could try opening task manager and clicking the shut down menu and selecting turn off...
works for me since my pc did what yours is doing - i also removed all unwanted software etc