Automatic Shutdowns Don’t Have to be Automatic

Ever update your system through Windows Update or install a new piece of software, and when the process completes, your system automatically shuts down or reboots? Of course you have. It’s annoying, right?

Free application ShutdownGuard addresses this problem by preventing Windows from automatically shutting down, rebooting, or logging off without confirmation. Each time it prevents a shutdown action, you’ll see an alert in your system tray asking if you really want to shutdown. If you do, click the alert. If not, just keep on keeping on. The lightweight ShutdownGuard is a free download, Windows only.

A friend of mine, brought a recent article to my attention in Yahoo News, http://tinyurl.com/2zhzvz, that Lenovo (IBM Thinkpad) is recalling laptop batteries because of a potential fire hazard. 

From the Yahoo article, “Lenovo said Thursday it sold the extended-life batteries with new ThinkPad notebook PCs or as optional or replacement batteries for ThinkPad notebook models R60, R60e, T60, T60p, Z60m, Z61e, Z61m, and Z61p. The recalled nine-cell batteries have the part number FRU P/N 92P1131 and sell for about $180.”

FYI,  Eric