Many people are having this kind of problem when they are attempting to reboot Windows XP. Many computers come up with this kind of problem and people end up being confused on how to deal with them. This becomes hard for them to solve the problem. This could happen through various reasons.

Installing New Hardware: This problem occurs when people install and uninstall a new hardware and software or when they unplug them. When you do this, the installation of your hardware will not be correct after installing. When you install drivers in your PC, some new changes occur.

APM Settings: You should check if the APM of your PC is enabled or disabled. This may cause some variations when shutting down your PC. Sometimes you can shutdown your PC and eventually, it will start restarting. Moreover, it might hug when shutting it down. When facing these kinds of problems, check the APM settings of your computer.

USB New Connections: When you make some new connections to your computer, this problem will occur. Removing some hardware from the universal serial bus is the simple method to detect the problem. You should try to unplug the recent new connection and shutdown your PC to see if this one can work.

Viruses attack: This is a malicious thing to our computers now days. The use of hard disks and universal serial bus, virus is spreading often. When you use infected USB device to your computer it will have some viruses immediately. These malicious software causes damage to your PC. Install an antivirus to your computer and perform a frequent scanning. The remove the unwanted items from your computer.

Problem of Restarting: Auto restart is an option that the most people select unintentionally. Virus may cause this one, but it is easy to unable it from the registry. Through this, you can avoid BSOD and let the straight aspect of auto reboot. Then from there you can run the Regedit.

On the Regedit check on Local machine HKEY, on its extension modify the value of 0 to 1 and restart the computer. Adjust the value to zero if you want to unable it.

The Antivirus: You should safe you r computer from more problems by the use of antivirus. The virus can be harmful to the issue of security and the Pc privacy. They cause also this harm despite damaging your PC.