I have a Compaq Presario 5250 with a clean install of Windows XP home edition. The problem I am having is that it will not power down when you use the Start > Shutdown button > Turn OFF. (The Reset Works) When you select shutdown it goes through the process of shutting down you hear the hard drive power down and a click from the PC speaker but then it just HANGS and dose not actually power down. Just stays on the screen saying “Windows is shutting down“ And Yes the AMP is enabled and I have disabled the suspend & hibernation modes. Any Ideas on what could be my problem? Could it be something physical on the motherboard?? I have also cheked out the web site http://www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnxpz.htm and tryed almost everything

Maybe this: Windows XP Stops Responding (Hangs) During Windows Shutdown http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307274 -------------------- Also to say, you should get more RAM. XP uses all of, at least, 128 to run properly, and works better. It slows things down if you have programs starting and running in the background during Startup. Also when you open programs, things are slower if they have to take RAM away from XP. You should have enough RAM (above 128) for each program you run at the same time.