Cannot shut down - hangs with "Shutting down" on screen

[Guest]

I've been using Vista Home Premium with consistent performance for past 2
months. I was using the administrator account to login. My PC is a new Dell
with Vista Home Premium OEM in it. No problems whatsoever so far. Last night,
I did only 1 thing and 1 thing only..

I created a new standard user account for login to Vista.

I then switched user and went to the new account. Tried to access the
internet but discovered that my internet connections that were visible in my
administrator account, are not visible in the new account. So, switched back
to administrator account and could not "share" that connection, so ended up
deleting that connection and creating new ones.

Then, switched back to new standard account and tried the internet
connection. Worked fine. So i logout of this account and went back to my
administrator account that was still logged in.

Then I shutdown.

And waited... and waited.. Screen stopped at "Shutting Down" and no
response. Pressed power button for 4 secs to switch off the PC.

Tried again. Just went in with administrator account, did nothing more, and
shutdown. Same thing.

Tried again. This time in standard account, did nothing more, and shutdown.
Same thing.

Went in again. Deleted all internet connections. Deleted standard account.
Shutdown. Same thing.

Its been hanging there forever. Thought it might be something updating
itself. Fine. Left PC on, went out, had lunch, came back 2 hours later.
Screen still showing "Shutting Down".

Finally.. went to system restore and restored to a previous point. When
restarting after restore was applied, screen still stuck at "Shutting Down".
WTF??

Pressed and held power button for 4 secs. Started up again. Logged in as
administrator.. shutdown. Now it works. Finally.

Is this an issue you've come across before? I mean.. after creating a new
standard user account, can your Vista still shutdown?

or, after creating new internet connection that is used by standard
account.. does Vista still shutdown?

I've nothing else plugged into my USB.. no RAMBoost or whatever programs.
Only standard AVG anti-virus and SpyBot which has been on there since the
beginning and has been working fine.

 

[Don]

GETTING BALD wrote:
....

Then I shutdown.

And waited... and waited.. Screen stopped at "Shutting Down" and no
response. Pressed power button for 4 secs to switch off the PC.

....

The system event logs do include comments about things which are
delaying shutdown. I'd start there first.

 

[LVTravel]

I am having the EXACT same problem as all of you! SNIP
TBNeeley
Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com

Doesn't anyone on Vistaheads look at the frigging post dates. The original
one was from 2007. Talk about a dying post. This post should have been
locked a long time ago.

 

[Peter Foldes]

I call them DeadHeads from VistaHeads

 

[LVTravel]

I call them DeadHeads from VistaHeads

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

I call them other things but can't post here as I am too polite.

 

[LVTravel]

I call them DeadHeads from VistaHeads

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

Damn, my post actually propagated to Vistaheads. Wonder how long it will be
there before they dump it.

 

[John John - MVP]

Damn, my post actually propagated to Vistaheads. Wonder how long it
will be there before they dump it.

3 years from now someone posting from VistaHeads will ask you for more
information...

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I call them DeadHeads from VistaHeads

Careful - all my (Grateful) Deadhead friends will be insulted by that

 

[LVTravel]

3 years from now someone posting from VistaHeads will ask you for more
information...

The scary part about this is you are 100% correct!

 

[c_atiel]

Sadly this problem persists in Vista and in my experience is even worse in
Win 7 64 bit.
Microsoft will point at non-MS hardware/drivers and they will say it is due
to defects in the OS.
It is not the end of the world but I have never been able to walk away from
a Win 7 machine in the process of shutting down and be able to guess whether
it will actually shut down. The longer the machine has been in
hibernation/sleep the less likely it is to complete the shut down process.

 

[Chuck]

Then you should really look at the hardware, BIOS revisions & settings, and
drivers, which are most often the culprits.
(Not to mention such things as spambots, etc)