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Explorer.exe running after shutdown

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Name: Mike178
Date: March 15, 2004 at 11:03:52 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Home Edition 5
CPU/Ram: Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz 51
Comment:

Every time I have been shutting down lately, I get the popup:

Ending program: Explorer.exe

I click end now to shutdown.

Why is this happening?



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Response Number 1
Name: DaveyB
Date: March 15, 2004 at 11:12:02 Pacific
Reply:

It shouldn't to be fair, sounds like a possible problem with your rundll files. But thats a speculatoion! do u get a error message number?


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Response Number 2
Name: Mike178
Date: March 15, 2004 at 11:19:01 Pacific
Reply:

No errors, just the box with "ending programs"


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Response Number 3
Name: DaveyB
Date: March 15, 2004 at 11:22:19 Pacific
Reply:

hmm, in order for it to still be open a program running in exporer or binded to it must still be active. Basically i couldn't tell you, its to ambiguous.


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Response Number 4
Name: aisler
Date: April 16, 2004 at 14:01:22 Pacific
Reply:

I had the same problem and, after a bit of messing around, found that editing the register will get rid of the "End Now" box. You have to make 2 edits, one in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MicroSoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer and the other in HKEY_USER\.Default\Software\MicroSoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer. In both of these, you have to change the "ShutDown Setting" to 2.

This gets rid of the box. Good luck.


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