Nanaha wrote:This is a reply to Peterweb. I went and shut Windows 8.1 down under settings and power.
Every thing is working fine now. Please read my reply to huwyngr.
Thank you for your help.
This is on of the best boards I have been.
NanaHA
Glad you have things working again.
What you achieve with the 'settings and power' is actually the hybrid shut down that I mentioned above, that does not actually fully shut down the computer. When you pulled the battery, (assuming you had unplugged the power cord) would have caused a full shut down.
A rather long, but detailed explanation of the Win 8 shutdown and instructions on how to achieve a complete shutdown can be found here http://www.howtohaven.com/system/how-to-shutdown-windows-8.shtml