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to: Geo.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2003-03-02 13:46:50
subject: Re: Egan`s Law

From: "Robert Comer" 

> speaking of thinkpad drivers, what the hell do I have to install to get
W2K
> to do a proper shutdown on a thinkpad so I don't have to hold the power
> button down to power it off once the screen goes blank?

Either the power management drivers or the chipset drivers.  I've never had
a problem with thinkpads that way.

- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e6246ce$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> "David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
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>
> > IBM must've shifted the people responsible for that mess over to
> > Thinkpad driver support.
>
> speaking of thinkpad drivers, what the hell do I have to install to get
W2K
> to do a proper shutdown on a thinkpad so I don't have to hold the power
> button down to power it off once the screen goes blank?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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