shutting down

[brianl0202]

windows 98se, sorry i dont have specs its not my computer. but any general ideas on why when shutting down the computer it would get stuck on the shutting down screen--the one where it has the windows logo and it says shutting down the computer at the bottom of the screen. it doesnt happen all the time, seems to be random. thanks for any help!

[Bill in SD, CA]

This should help.

http://annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-015

And sometime: Disable fast shutdown: During shutdown, Windows shuts down all device drivers. If, in Win98, this is the reason Windows is not shutting down properly, you can disable this feature in the System Configuration utility. Click the General tab and the Advanced button.


Bill

[Bovon]

There are several reasons for Win98se to not shut down properly, read at the following Microsoft site concerning the possible fixes. If the computer is configured to have a shutdown sound...i.e.. some wave sound when/as Windows closes/..this can cause Windows not not complete its shut down at times, especially if the wave file is corrupt in any way. Just turn off any shutdown wave sounds as the machine is exiting.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q239887

Be sure to disable fast shut down in msconfig. (ooopsss I just saw you had said the same Bill...BTW...what happened to the IDE ribbon cable swapout and the HDD problem you had awhile back?)

[Bill in SD, CA]

This may be the same from Bovon.

Windows 98 Second Edition Shutdown Supplement

Bovon, haven't had a problem since. Cable must have been flaky.

Bill

[angelcat]

What about the same problem, but with WinXP as the operating system?

[sao95]

i had that problem and when i hit ctrl/alt/delete i noticed systray wasn't listed, went into msconfig.exe and it wasn't checked, checked it and have been problem free....

wow, this is the first problem of someone else's i actually had an answer to... isn't that just dandy?