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had to press and hold power button to turn off windows xp and now computer will not start -- baron

KDS wrote:

had to press and hold power button to turn off windows xp and now computer will not start

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555375

I think John Boy is referring to a lack of information in your post. For example: why was it necessary to shutdown via power button? What error messages(s) did you receive? What do you mean computer will not start? - nothing on the screen, no power lights and so forth? Did you try safe mode?
"KDS" wrote in message

had to press and hold power button to turn off windows xp and now computer will not start -- baron

KDS you need to detail your questions as AJR says and when I saw that one of the main differentials I had besides why you would need to hard button shut down is:
1) Are you hanging on shutdown--common can help with that. 2) Can you not boot--common can help with that. 3) Random shutdowns--common yada yada.
There's plenty of willing help here, but it makes it much harder if we have to guess and right now that's running 50% of the posts in this particular group. So to get faster fixing tell us in detail what you are seeing--remembering we aren't sitting at your monitor and then someone can help.
You also need only one thread per problem--more information on your problem not more posts with no info is what will get you answers to get fixed.
CH
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had to press and hold power button to turn off windows xp and now computer will not start -- baron