I have a problem shutting down XP. For a change, it is not that the system takes long to shut down or reboots, but: When I click on the Start Menu button in order to shut down, it takes the system sometimes up to 5 minutes to show the actual turn off button in the middle of the screen. During that time, nothing else happens. What the heck is that? Thx for helping, y'all - yet again ...

This works: http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticge... EEOC

Instead of doing the Start button route, at the Desktop do ALT + F4 to bring up the Shutdown options.

Thanks for your help, but unfortunately, none of this worked. I changed all the registry settings, and even by using alt+f4, the problem rermains. Any more suggestions?

if you have the same XP disc as your OS, you could sfc /scannow That will replace any corrupted windows files. Some HELP in posting on Computing.net plus free progs and instructions Cheers

Still more problems: I tried that, but during checking the Windows files the system told me to insert my Windows XP Professional Disk - but I have XP Home Edition, and after inserting the disk it told me, I had put in the wrong disk ... :-O

Most Virus and Spyware scans are likely to work better in Windows Safe-Mode. Also you do not say how much RAM memory you have. Also To have more RAM available at startup, You can do Start, then RUN, then type msconfig Then uncheck items in the Startup tab. To find out what each Startup(or Process) item does or means, and any recommendation as to if you should close the process: http://www.answersthatwork.com/Task... Task List Programs OR http://www.processlibrary.com/ The Process Library -------------------------- You would have to Restart twice after unchecking items in msconfig, in order to notice any changes in XP behavior.