DELL XPS 1330 shutsdown on start up

[borogeordie]

Dear all, I'm after some assistance if possible.

I bought a Dell XPS 1330 Laptop some years ago now and am running windows Vista on it at present. The laptop has worked fine all these years but recently after a period of some months away I returned, switched on my laptop and it automatically shut itself down.

On further investigation, just as you get to the home screen a cmd prompt window appears labelled 'Shutdown.exe'. This then disappears very quickly and the laptop shuts down. I know I should probably be looking at a new laptop after all these years but this one has a lot of my work on and at present I cant get it off.

I have tried booting in safe mode which works but nothing I've tried via there resolves the problem once I try to boot normally.

Any ideas???

Many thanks

Dave

 

[Yevrag35]

This is Vista, correct?

http://www.instructables.com/id/Shutdown-Prank-for-Windows-XP-or-Vista/
Hopefully, this is just the problem. In which case, you have to look in your startup folder and check to see if UAC is disabled.

 

[borogeordie]

Hi many thanks for the response.
I've checked the start up folder and it appears empty however the cmd prompt still appears as soon as I turn my laptop on!

 

[Yevrag35]

check all of your startup programs then, type in "msconfig" in either a command window or a Run box. Look at everything that's under the "Startup" tab.