Windows 2003 shutdown instead of reboot

Posted by The_cobra666 on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by The_cobra666
Published on 2009-07-06T08:25:16Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 13:43 UTC
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Hi all,

I've got a very strange problem. On the net I can only find problems with Server 2003 pc's, that reboot instead of shutting down, but in my case... (go figure) it does the opposite. When I choose to reboot, the system shutdown.

Yes I am sure I used the reboot button. It happens via start ==> reboot and it happens when clicking on the reboot button when the update's have been installed.

Nothing changed to the system's hardware. Only update's have been installed on the system.

I did notice something odd in the logs when rebooting: Description: Timed out sending notification of target device change to window of "C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE" KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924390 They talk about a removable drive, but in my case, it's explorer.exe :s it appears 4 times.

OS: Windows Server 2003 R2. Services: AD, DNS, DHCP, WSUS.

Thanks in advance!

Greetings from Belgium Shane

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