Thinking at a tangent for a moment (and please don't shout at me if I'm
wrong, this is just a stab in the dark):

Back on the old days of 95/98/Me etc, this could be caused by a corrupt .wav
file. Windows would stubbornly try to play its shutdown sound despite being
unable to, and appear to hang. The fix was to pick a different shutdown
sound or set it to none.

Now, one would hope this isn't still an issue all these years later but you
never know. Try setting your shutdown sound to none and see what happens.


"JP" <Jp@nomail> wrote in message
news:%23IHosKJXKHA.408@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> No I don't have Zone Alarm
>
> "SueG" <suegil@Geemail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9CB8D06584E9sueg55@216.151.153.43...[color=green]
>> "JP" <JP@nomail> wrote in news:#9sCnM6WKHA.5368@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> When I shut down or restart my computer I get the Shutting Down...
>>> screen and that is where the system gets stuck, nothing futher
>>> happens. I have to either use the reset button or shut down by using
>>> the power button.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to correct this?
>>>
>>> JP
>>>[/color]
>> I recently tried the Zone Alarm Security suite (it was a free offer) on
>> my
>> Vista computer and ended up uninstalling it because Vista refused to shut
>> down....just wondring if you have recently installed a Zone Alarm product
>> or similar?
>>[/color][/color]