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Shutting Down?

Old 2nd December 2006 | 08:51
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Shutting Down?

Been having a problem with my mouse pointer just disapearing from the screen requiring a reboot,with no mouse pointer I cannot call up the task manager to shut down or shut down in the normal way by clicking on shut down or restart,all i can do is hit the reset button,is there no other way of shutting down XP ? because it seems to take forecver to reboot after a reset,it wants to boot into safe mode run scan disc ect.
Not a big problem,twill probably be solved by buying a new mouse,but the thought struck that there shoul be some other way of shutting down that does no require the mouse.
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Old 2nd December 2006 | 09:06
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Normally the second button from the left at the bottom (with the Microsoft Windows 'icon') labelled 'start' and then press 'u'
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Old 2nd December 2006 | 09:55
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Whey man yer yer reet!buggah me!! all these years pottering about with puter an I didn't know that.
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Or ctrl-alt-del, then use the arrow keys...

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Invoice in the post
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