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Question posted by webkitten2 on October 25th, 2013

Lenovo Ideacentre K450 Desktop Failed To Start Power Control Switch

On startup, I get error "Failed to start Power Control Switch, please run Power Control Switch as administrator to resolve the problem. I am the administrator of my computer. I have had my new computer for about 10 days but this error just started a few days ago.

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