Turn off/ Wake up problems

Good deal. Computers do the weirdest things sometimes with no rhyme or reason. I really hate it when something starts working and I can't account for the "why". At those times I don't feel that I've learned anything.

Slartybart said:

For the shut down and wake up issues, try disabling hibernation

Launch and elevated Command Prompt and enter the following command (there is no output)

powercfg /h off

and restart your machine.

faithful said:

It has worked. Thank you!

After trying to solve this problem for a number of moths, I tried your advice and it worked!
Thank you very much.