System Shutdown Pop up

[Guest]

I recently had to reformat my harddrive due to 2 years of trash buildup and
other assorted stuff. Anyway after doing a clean install of windows XP Home I
now get this anoying popup whenever I shutdown or restart my computer that
states:

" This system is shutting down. Please save any work in progress
and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated
by[computer name/My name]

Time before shutdown: 00:00:30

Message:
(THIS AREA IS BLANK)"


Before I reformatted I had found a way to disable this popup for atleast the
past year and a half. For the life of me I can't remember how. If anyone
knows please help this is really anoying.
Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Linda B]

Are you all firewalled/antivirused/antimalwared/patched-up? The only thing
I know of that causes that message is a malfunctioning LSAS doohickey, and
the only thing I know of that will cause the LSAS to malfunction is the
Sasser worm (or at least, the most prevalent thing). I'd double check that
all your anti-etc. crap is updated, run a scan, and take a gander at this:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser_printxp.mspx

If I'm completely off base, just tell me to shut the hell up.

LB

 

[Guest]

I did a full system scan and found nothing. I am not expierencing any
problems just this anoying popup when I attempt to shutdown. It doesn't give
any error mesage or anything just basically tells me I have to wait for it to
shut down.

Are you all firewalled/antivirused/antimalwared/patched-up? The only thing
I know of that causes that message is a malfunctioning LSAS doohickey, and
the only thing I know of that will cause the LSAS to malfunction is the
Sasser worm (or at least, the most prevalent thing). I'd double check that
all your anti-etc. crap is updated, run a scan, and take a gander at this:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/sasser_printxp.mspx

If I'm completely off base, just tell me to shut the hell up.

LB

I recently had to reformat my harddrive due to 2 years of trash buildup and
other assorted stuff. Anyway after doing a clean install of windows XP Home I
now get this anoying popup whenever I shutdown or restart my computer that
states:

" This system is shutting down. Please save any work in progress
and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated
by[computer name/My name]

Time before shutdown: 00:00:30

Message:
(THIS AREA IS BLANK)"


Before I reformatted I had found a way to disable this popup for atleast the
past year and a half. For the life of me I can't remember how. If anyone
knows please help this is really anoying.
Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[S.Sengupta]

http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Guest]

Been there tried that anoying little popup still there whenever I shutdown.
Ready to scrap XP. I had to disable this when I first built this computer but
can't remember how.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

I recently had to reformat my harddrive due to 2 years of trash buildup and
other assorted stuff. Anyway after doing a clean install of windows XP Home I
now get this anoying popup whenever I shutdown or restart my computer that
states:

" This system is shutting down. Please save any work in progress
and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated
by[computer name/My name]

Time before shutdown: 00:00:30

Message:
(THIS AREA IS BLANK)"


Before I reformatted I had found a way to disable this popup for atleast the
past year and a half. For the life of me I can't remember how. If anyone
knows please help this is really anoying.
Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Kelly]

Which cleaners have you used, Shelby? In the meantime:

Run Ad-Aware SE, Spybot and HijackThis:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html

Note: Update each program, once installed, before running.

Lastly:

User Profile Hive Cleanup Service (Line 36) Right hand side
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

This edit automatically ends tasks and timeouts that prevent programs from
shutting down and clears the Paging File on Exit.

Auto End Tasks to Enable a Proper Shutdown (Line 76)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Good luck and keep us posted!




--
All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com