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Name: jwoodrum
Date: October 19, 2004 at 17:48:08 Pacific
OS: Win Me
CPU/Ram: Duron @1G / 128 M
Comment:

Within the last Wk. I have had to Shut Down my system twice to get to accualy Shut Down.

Win Me loads and appears to work properly, but I have to click on Start, Shut Down, Ok twice before it will shut down.

I have been to MS Windows updates and downloaded All recomended updates but the proble still exist.

Please advise if you have a solution.



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Response Number 1
Name: uppercrust
Date: October 19, 2004 at 17:58:01 Pacific
Reply:

boot with a millenium boot disk

change to c:
type
c:\scanreg/restore [note the forward slash]
in the menu, choose an earlier date to restore to, before the problem arose


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Response Number 2
Name: Ed in Texas.
Date: October 20, 2004 at 03:13:47 Pacific
Reply:

jwoodrum, FWIW, a lot of Windows 98 based machines (ME is one) have reported various shutdown problems for a variety of reasons. I have experienced problems using both OSes and a solution which worked for me is installation/use of a program called 'Slawdog'. If you put a shortcut icon in your quicklaunch toolbar, it'll provide you reliable ONE CLICK shutdown. Want it? Free at :
http://www.slawdog.com/products/smartsd/
HTH.
Ed in Texas.


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Response Number 3
Name: Viking
Date: October 20, 2004 at 03:44:51 Pacific
Reply:

MSKB Article 273746 - How to Troubleshoot Windows Me Shutdown Problems


See the iDiOt walk
See the idiot TaLk

WaLk IdIoT WaLk


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Response Number 4
Name: jwoodrum
Date: October 20, 2004 at 19:53:11 Pacific
Reply:

I would like to thank Viking for the assistance.

The MSKB article 273746 did the job.

I removed all programs from the StartUp directory and the problem went away.

After adding programs back into the StartUp directory, I found that US Robobics Instant Reminder.exe was the problem.

I will tell US Robotics about the problem.

Thanks again to Viking

Jeff Woodrum


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Response Number 5
Name: Viking
Date: October 21, 2004 at 05:35:35 Pacific
Reply:

Cool beans baby - glad the article did the trick for ya.


See the iDiOt walk
See the idiot TaLk

WaLk IdIoT WaLk


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