Shutting down...

[Guest]

Lately, maybe for the last three weeks, when I shutdown my computer using
Start, Turn Off Computer, Turn Off, the system goes through its normal slow
process and then hangs at "Shutting down..."
Even if I let it go overnigth, the system will be at the same point next
morning.
Something is not releasing the system. How can I find out what is causing
the problem?
I will appreciate some suggestions.

 

[db]

it is tricky to figure out.

to me it would be somekind of
a hardware issue that couldn't
be disabled at shutdown, so the
system hangs.

here is alink that will likely give
you more information
http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=hangs+at+"Shutting+down..."

- db
Lately, maybe for the last three weeks, when I shutdown my computer using
Start, Turn Off Computer, Turn Off, the system goes through its normal slow
process and then hangs at "Shutting down..."
Even if I let it go overnigth, the system will be at the same point next
morning.
Something is not releasing the system. How can I find out what is causing
the problem?
I will appreciate some suggestions.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the information. Microsoft has a patch as of Feb 19 for this
particular problem.
Since it does not happen every time, I will wait for the March updates and
hopefully it will contain the patch. Thanks.

 

[db]

you're welcome.


Thank you for the information. Microsoft has a patch as of Feb 19 for this
particular problem.
Since it does not happen every time, I will wait for the March updates and
hopefully it will contain the patch. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

On my particular computer (Dell 2400 series) you can push the - "on" button
to your computer - hold it in continuiously for about 6 seconds or until the
screen goes blank. It will then correctly close down. You may have a virus or
just not enough RAM - have you defrag your system lately ran you virus
protection? Just a thought - Craig

 

[Ken Blake]

Lately, maybe for the last three weeks, when I shutdown my computer using
Start, Turn Off Computer, Turn Off, the system goes through its normal
slow
process and then hangs at "Shutting down..."
Even if I let it go overnigth, the system will be at the same point next
morning.
Something is not releasing the system. How can I find out what is causing
the problem?

There's good information on shutdown problems here:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm