SHUTTING DOWN

[Guest]

My emachine goes thru the whole procces of shutting down and when it gets to
"Windows is Shutting down" it ....I have to turn it off by pressing the
shutdown
switch. Why is it doing it and what do I do about it?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Does it reach a screen that tells you "it is now safe to shut off your
computer"? If so, this means you need to enable APM in the Control
Panel/Power Options. It is not enabled by default on installation.

If it just stalls, that indicates a process is not terminating properly, and
the easiest way to figure out which is to kill all running programs, then
selectively kill a couple of processes with Task Manager before attempting
to shut down. If it works, then one of the processes you killed is the
culprit. If not, then it is one of the remaining ones. It will take some
experimenting to isolate the true culprit.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

My emachine goes thru the whole procces of shutting down and when it
gets to "Windows is Shutting down" it ....I have to turn it off by
pressing the shutdown
switch. Why is it doing it and what do I do about it?

There's a lot of help at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
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Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

 

[shazzbat]

My emachine goes thru the whole procces of shutting down and when it gets
to
"Windows is Shutting down" it ....I have to turn it off by pressing the
shutdown
switch. Why is it doing it and what do I do about it?

I've noticed that now I've upgraded to XP from Win98, it takes much longer
to shut down. You are being patient?

Steve