Vista hangs on shutdown

[Chris Coates]

I installed a clean build of Vista Ultimate. Every time I shut down the
computer (IBM ThinkPad G41) the shutdown hangs with the ball spinning and
the words "Shutting Down" I have left it for as long as 30 min. and it never
shuts down. Is any one else seeing this?
Does any on know a fix?

Thanks
Chris

 

[Mike]

I installed a clean build of Vista Ultimate. Every time I shut down the
computer (IBM ThinkPad G41) the shutdown hangs with the ball spinning and
the words "Shutting Down" I have left it for as long as 30 min. and it
never shuts down. Is any one else seeing this?
Does any on know a fix?

I see something similar on a test machine at work. It hangs when doing a
restart, but shutdown works OK. Go figure.

The machine is pretty old - an IBM NetVista(!) tower with a 1 Ghz P3 and 512
megs RAM.

Mike

 

[Henry Jones]

I have an old IBM PC and to shut it down, I have to hit the power button, it
doesn't do an auto-shutdown. Go figure

 

[Guest]

I have exact same problem with Ultimate. Traced it to a Linksys USB Wireless
B v4 adapter. If I pull out the lead before shutdown it shutsdown OK. Waiting
for Linksys to place a Vista driver update on their site. Have U any USB
devices which similarly could cause this. Try unplugging.

 

[TimNT]

I have exact same problem with Ultimate. Traced it to a Linksys USB Wireless
B v4 adapter. If I pull out the lead before shutdown it shutsdown OK. Waiting
for Linksys to place a Vista driver update on their site. Have U any USB
devices which similarly could cause this. Try unplugging.

Sorry to bring up some old post, but i actually have a Linksys
Wireless PCI Card, i wonder if thats what causes it now... I will
experiment with USB peripherals, Thank you for bringing that to my
attention!

 

[Guest]

YESSSSSSS I'm having the same problem with VISTA UPGRADE from XP. I have had
VISTA BUSINESS for about 2 months, sorted out all the other bugs, now the
shut down problem just started happening this week.

 

[Guest]

I don't think it's LinkSys because I have a LinkSys and no problems with
VISTA in 2 months until this week when the SHUT DOWN HANGS.

 

[Guest]

So what do you do!? Its been shutting down for about 10 hours now, I don't
see a way to get past it and back to a functional state. Is there a way to
cancel the shutdown?

 

[Guest]

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So it can't open a file it wants to.

 

[Joe Guidera]

No. All you can do is hold in the power button for about 5 seconds which
will force it down. I have a similar problem (sometimes) with a ThinkPad
T60P. It's a problem with one of the devices/drivers that isn't properly
allowing Vista to shutdown or standby. Unfortunately I don't know which one
and there's no shutdown troubleshooter for Vista available yet.

J

 

[microexpensive]

The problem that I was having was when the laptop said it was shuting down I
would close the lid
before the shut-down completed and that would put it in sleep mode. So I
turned off the sleep mode
and now it shuts off without hanging.

 

[Guest]

Here is the resolution and I have had NO problems on shut down since
disabling some of my programs in STARTUP.

Go into your DEFENDER
click on SOFTWARE EXPLORER (down in the bottom right corner of the screen)
click on REFRESH

look down the list - those are ALL your startup programs which automatically
run every time you start your computer up.

click on any of the programs that you DO NOT want to auto STARTUP, then
CLICK DISABLE.

It is obvious that one or some of your programs in that STARTUP list is
causing the problem.

In my case the problems on hanging on shut down were caused by Roxio and
Creative software, so I disabled all of them and BINGO, I have no more
problems with SHUT DOWN.

 

[Guest]

Looks like that could be the cause for me. I suspect the offending program is
Sonic Solutions Roxio, as every time I startup I get a message telling me the
drivers for that are incompatible...of course there are none available when I
search online. However, the immediate problem is that in Defender the buttons
to Remove / Disable / Enable are not highlighted, ie. I can't click on them.
Is there some setting hidden somewhere that has disabled the buttons?

 

[Mike]

Go to Sonic's site. There is a fix for the DLA driver issue in Roxio. I
had same problem but the fix did the job.

 

[Guest]

Nicholas, when you go into DEFENDER, then into SOFTWARE EXPLORER, there is a
little pulldown box on the upper left. Make sure you select STARTUP PROGRAMS,
then on the bottom left, there is a REFRESH button. Click that, and you
SHOULD be able to go down the STARTUP contents, and click on the offending
software, then click DISABLE. I know I had to click on Refresh a few times
before I was able to click on DISABLE. It WILL work.

 

[Guest]

Mike, do you happen to have the link for the fix as I cannot find the fix
Thanks, Rebecca

 

[Guest]

Here is the link, I found it:
http://kb.roxio.com/content/kb/MyDVD/000131CR?set-locale=en

 

[Guest]

THANKS MIKE. I found and posted the link to the patch in one of my replies
BINGGGGOOOO, it works THANKS so much

 

[Guest]

Thanks Rebecca, I found that I needed to select 'show for all users' before
the Disable etc buttons came to life. Have disabled the Sonic / Roxio
programs but still having the shut down problem. Am disabling one thing at a
time now and trying that. Hopefully eventually I'll get there. So
frustrating!!

 

[Guest]

Hi Nicholas, did you manage to isolate the prolem yet? If not, keep trying
because I KNOW the problem is somewhere in those STARTUP programs. It is VERY
FRUSTRATING. I think it took me 3 months to finally get everything working
right. Good luck.