I've had a recurring problem with restarting my PC for quite sometime.  A Latitude laptop in a docking station is my desktop PC but has not been used portable for a long time.  Several months ago it frequently stopped restarting when required and had to be powered back on manually each time.  Now that happens with every restart and, for that reason, I've stopped any automatic software updates requiring restart from installing unless I'm at the computer.  I don't know if this is some change I've accidentally made to the PC configuration but I'd appreciate any feedback on correcting this issue.

Along this same line, it's now become difficult to power on the computer.  I usually have to undock and dock several times before it will power on.  This same problem occurs when the laptop is not in the docking station and the AC power is plugged in.  I don't know if this is a hardware problem or not.

Both of the above problems started at about the same time.

Thank you for any feedback you can offer.