Here's a great site on troubleshooting shutdown problems with Windows XP:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm
That error indicates that a program that is running is having problems being
shut down by Windows. See the
"PROGRAMS HANG / BECOME UNRESPONSIVE" section of the page above.
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Jon R. Kennedy
Charlotte, NC, USA
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"Fran" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Using IE6 and OE6 with WinXP home. I recently changed ISP's and now my
> computer hangs at shutdown. I get a "program is not responding...cannot
> close" error msg titled "DirectDBNotifyWndproc" at shutdown and have to
> manually close popup box and then the shutdown proceeds. Does anyone know
> a
> fix for this? Thanks in advance, Fran
>