It was pointed out by another member of staff that the usual user is impatient and 'gets annoyed' when it's shutting down so he can switch monitors etc off( this business has a policy that all users do this when finished for day) She thinks she's seen him flip the power sockets off to get away.Įven the non technical manager understood this will be causing problems, so he's had a word with me present that he/we will be monitoring the problem very closely and any more issues the user has to explain in minute detail what he was doing at shutdown and restart. Went back yesterday as planned and talked it through with manager, it turns out the machine was used all weekend by another member of staff intermittently with no problems and was shut/restarted several times ok. The PC wasn't shutting down randomly, issue is only when this one user is on. I've agreed that they will try leaving PC on 24/7 and have set up power options to basically put it into hibernation if left untouched for 60min. This is why I think they are corrupting the registry. I'm reseaching some way of monitoring if thats whats happening, same as if there was a power cut which is effectively what they are doing. I've checked their power and its stable, other PCs are OK, just this one that this one person uses. I've had it on the bench and its never had an issue. I think they are holding the power button till it goes off despite telling them to shut it down AND showing them how to numerous times. I'm positive they are not shutting PC down properly, but cant as yet prove that and they swear blind they are shutting down ok. It's when I leave them for a day or so they invariably manage it again. I have reloaded from scratch, sat most of the day and shutdown/restarted all Ok. They're only patient because they accept its their own doing. I'm going in next week to watch what they are doing so hoped to edit ini file in meantime remotely till I understand what they are doing. Save me loads of calls and frustration this would as no matter how many time I go through this the client STILL manages to get confused - I'll end up saying something soon!! However getting them to hit F8 at right time and selecting LKGC is unbelievably hard work so as an interim until I figure out how they manage to screw it up I wanted to add it as a start option but cant figure out how just yet. I do have a reason for needing it - Somehow (not figured out yet) a client has somehow perfected the knack of screwing up the start up and its always fixed by LKGC and then a normal shutdown/restart. I've found switches for nearly all options, safemode, networking etc except this one. I want to add the option as in the same as when you press F8? Is there a switch or command you can add to Boot.ini to display an option to start with Last Known Good Configuration? I've searched and can't find an answer for this yet.
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