m15 R7, slide to shut down

Question

Hi Guys, my Alienware m15R7 is crazy. Slide to shut down appears when It wants or if I move a little bit my laptop. I searched online and even removed slidetoshutdown.exe but after couldn't start my laptop. I had to reinstall windows. I tried everything, power options, etc. Not sure why this stupid feature is installed on a non-touch screen laptop. All drivers, including bios, are up to date. This is for sure my last Dell computer!

Any suggestions before I send it back to Dell?

Thanks

JOcean · Answer

MS thought it was a great idea to allow a user to shutdown by using the mouse or touchpad by dragging the cursor down to shutdown. You don't need a touchscreen for it to work. Have you tried disabling the .exe by going to task manager and in the startup tab click on slidetoshutdown.exe then click on disable? Then restart the system.

Mich974 · Answer

Thanks but slidetoshutdown.exe doesn't appear in task manger, start-up tab. Just to reply your message, laptop rebooted twice.

Even how to explain just by moving the laptop, shut down is initiated?? Internal connection?

Mich974 · Answer

For info, after more a month of updates and questions from Dell, even motherboard changed, still the same issue. Laptop keeps shutting down itself. Dell doesn't know what to do. Now I'm fighting with them to take it back for repair. Laptop still under warranty  but they keep sending me questions...

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m15 R7, slide to shut down

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