Lately when l shut down my computer this message pops up inside a dialog box ( End Program - IEXPLORE.exe Ending Program...Please wait If you chose to end the program immediately you will lose any unsaved data. To end the program now, click End Now.) The problem here is the fact that my computer has always shut down properly,usually within 20 seconds. Now l'm confronted with having to end this program by clicking the End Now botton within this dialog box.I checked out the Event Properties and noted the following (EventID:1073 Source:USER32 Type:Warning Symbolic Name:WARNING_EW_SHUTDOWN_CANCELLED) The explanation given is as follows...This event is written when a user or application attemps,but fails,to restart or shutdown the computer by using either the graphical user interface (GUI) or the shutdown command. Can someone please tell what to do in order to correct this problem when shuting down my computer. Thanks a million.

Just posted this on your original post. Have you ran Spybot S&D or Ad-Aware to see if spyware is keeping IE "open"? If so and there were no issues: Let's try these: Start - Run - Regedit Navigate to the following Registry key: HKEY CURRENT USER\Control Panel\Desktop Double click on the AutoEndTasks entry and replace the 0 with a 1 in the Value data text box In the same registry location, on the right side if the value doesn't already exist add the Dword value: WaitToKillAppTimeout and give it a value of 2000 Then go to H_K_L_M / System / ControlSet001 / Control / and again if it doesn't exist create the Dword WaitToKillServiceTimeout and give it a value of 2000 Then do a Registry Search for both of those DWord values and wherever they appear change the value to 2000 Reboot