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My computer doesn't shut down!
Name: Peckinator Date: January 11, 2009 at 20:45:56 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: p4/1gig Product: Hewlett-packard / Xw 4100 Subcategory: General
Comment:
If I try to restart or shut down, the computer closes all of windows and I get the blue screen that says "windows is shutting down", but it will stay in that screen forever and never shut down! I then have to do a hard shut down and turn on manually. What's wrong???
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: January 12, 2009 at 02:00:01 Pacific
Reply:
Peckinator, FWIW, Windows seems to have been plagued with shutdown problems of one sort or another since day 1. I use a standalone shutdown proggie (for convenience) called 'Slawdog' (said to work on all versions). Get it free @: http://www.slawdog.com/products/sma... among other places. Works good and I drag/dropped the icon into my quicklaunch so it'd be handy for use. HTH. Ed in Texas.
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Response Number 2
Name: SysLock Date: January 12, 2009 at 07:29:47 Pacific
Summary: I have a problem with shutdown. Often my computer doesn't shut down as it used to... this occurs after I changed mobo a couple of days ago... it freezes at the "Windows is shutting down" page and the ...
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