My PC (Windows98) no longer automatically powers down during shutdown. It used to do it but after some software installs it no long powers down. Backing out my latest software installs did not fix it.

How can I turn this feature back on?

Powering down is controlled by Power Management. Chek in your device manager and make sure it is still there and does not have an exclamation point in it.

I checked the device manager under:
System Properties
----Device Manager
-------System Devices
----------Intel 82371EB Power Management Controller
and all looks OK. There is nothing in there that looks out of place (no exclamation marks).

Any other ideas would be appreciated.

You are near the right place but not quite there ...in the "System Devices" the first entry should be "Advance Power Management Support" ...if this is not there ... then you need to go to the Control Panel|Add New Hardware and let the system auto detect it or you might have to look for it yourself ... But you will need to install it through there ...

You also may want to have a peek in CMOS for that setting too!

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Thanks for the assistance.
I finally tracked it down to Norton AntiVirus checker. When I terminated the auto protect the PC behaved as it was supposed to.

I will try to find out why the VirusChecker caused it but I am happy that I have the reason.

Thanks.