I do hold the power button to turn it off, that's how I can get the desktop the second time.
I shut it down with the regular shut down sequence via the apple menu to shut it down when I am done with it. Hope that helps. Jenny On Apr 17, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > I wonder if the power button is set to put the computer into sleep or > stand-by, rather than use\e turn it off and on again? When I press my power > button, I still have to choose whether to sleep or restart or shut off, > unless I use the "panic button," method of just holding it down until the > computer goes off. Jenny, try checking in Apple / System pref / power and > see what the settings for it are. > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com > • My home page: > • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.