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XP wont shut down or reboot!
Name: intel810 Date: October 3, 2005 at 11:42:39 Pacific OS: winXP Home CPU/Ram: pIII 1.2GHz\128mb
Comment:
Since i installed XP Home Edititon on my computer, it wont shut down or reboot, but it will go on standby. I have to hold the power button to turn it off, and then it runs through the disk checker when i boot again. How can i stop this, because its driving me frickin' crazy!!!!
Name: jasonsani Date: October 3, 2005 at 12:36:38 Pacific
Reply:
I would run a virus scan on it, might have something preventing the shut down, also you can force a shutdown from the task mgr, kill the process svchost.exe till a rpc box pops up telling you its going to shut down in 60 seconds. but mostlikely a virus.
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Response Number 2
Name: intel810 Date: October 3, 2005 at 15:53:12 Pacific
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Its definitly not a virus anyway, beease i made a clean install, and it never shuts down at all. It says: "Logging off..." "Saving your settings..." "windows is shutting down..." and then it never goes any further.
Any other suggestions?
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