Lately, maybe for the last three weeks, when I shutdown my computer using
Start, Turn Off Computer, Turn Off, the system goes through its normal slow
process and then hangs at "Shutting down..."
Even if I let it go overnigth, the system will be at the same point next
morning.
Something is not releasing the system. How can I find out what is causing
the problem?
I will appreciate some suggestions.
--
Using of Win XP Pro, FrontPage 2002, Outlook XP, Word-PowerPoint-Publisher
2002, Word 2002
AMD Athlon 1.2, 512mb mem, 80GB disk, DVD and CD burners.

it is tricky to figure out.

to me it would be somekind of
a hardware issue that couldn't
be disabled at shutdown, so the
system hangs.

here is alink that will likely give
you more information
http://search.microsoft.com/results....ing+down...%22

- db
"KingMe" <KingMe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FA770346-715C-4E57-9D14-DEC5A4EA84A5@microsoft.com...
Lately, maybe for the last three weeks, when I shutdown my computer using
Start, Turn Off Computer, Turn Off, the system goes through its normal slow
process and then hangs at "Shutting down..."
Even if I let it go overnigth, the system will be at the same point next
morning.
Something is not releasing the system. How can I find out what is causing
the problem?
I will appreciate some suggestions.
--
Using of Win XP Pro, FrontPage 2002, Outlook XP, Word-PowerPoint-Publisher
2002, Word 2002
AMD Athlon 1.2, 512mb mem, 80GB disk, DVD and CD burners.

Thank you for the information. Microsoft has a patch as of Feb 19 for this
particular problem.
Since it does not happen every time, I will wait for the March updates and
hopefully it will contain the patch. Thanks.
--
Using of Win XP Pro, FrontPage 2002, Outlook XP, Word-PowerPoint-Publisher
2002, Word 2002
AMD Athlon 1.2, 512mb mem, 80GB disk, DVD and CD burners.



"db" wrote:

> it is tricky to figure out.
>
> to me it would be somekind of
> a hardware issue that couldn't
> be disabled at shutdown, so the
> system hangs.
>
> here is alink that will likely give
> you more information
> http://search.microsoft.com/results....ing+down...%22
>
> - db
> "KingMe" <KingMe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FA770346-715C-4E57-9D14-DEC5A4EA84A5@microsoft.com...
> Lately, maybe for the last three weeks, when I shutdown my computer using
> Start, Turn Off Computer, Turn Off, the system goes through its normal slow
> process and then hangs at "Shutting down..."
> Even if I let it go overnigth, the system will be at the same point next
> morning.
> Something is not releasing the system. How can I find out what is causing
> the problem?
> I will appreciate some suggestions.
> --
> Using of Win XP Pro, FrontPage 2002, Outlook XP, Word-PowerPoint-Publisher
> 2002, Word 2002
> AMD Athlon 1.2, 512mb mem, 80GB disk, DVD and CD burners

you're welcome.


"KingMe" <KingMe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DE8743BC-5E88-4066-9BFB-87518DA95BCE@microsoft.com...
Thank you for the information. Microsoft has a patch as of Feb 19 for this
particular problem.
Since it does not happen every time, I will wait for the March updates and
hopefully it will contain the patch. Thanks.
--
Using of Win XP Pro, FrontPage 2002, Outlook XP, Word-PowerPoint-Publisher
2002, Word 2002
AMD Athlon 1.2, 512mb mem, 80GB disk, DVD and CD burners.



"db" wrote:

> it is tricky to figure out.
>
> to me it would be somekind of
> a hardware issue that couldn't
> be disabled at shutdown, so the
> system hangs.
>
> here is alink that will likely give
> you more information
> http://search.microsoft.com/results....ing+down...%22
>
> - db
> "KingMe" <KingMe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FA770346-715C-4E57-9D14-DEC5A4EA84A5@microsoft.com...
> Lately, maybe for the last three weeks, when I shutdown my computer using
> Start, Turn Off Computer, Turn Off, the system goes through its normal slow
> process and then hangs at "Shutting down..."
> Even if I let it go overnigth, the system will be at the same point next
> morning.
> Something is not releasing the system. How can I find out what is causing
> the problem?
> I will appreciate some suggestions.
> --
> Using of Win XP Pro, FrontPage 2002, Outlook XP, Word-PowerPoint-Publisher
> 2002, Word 2002
> AMD Athlon 1.2, 512mb mem, 80GB disk, DVD and CD burners

On my particular computer (Dell 2400 series) you can push the - "on" button
to your computer - hold it in continuiously for about 6 seconds or until the
screen goes blank. It will then correctly close down. You may have a virus or
just not enough RAM - have you defrag your system lately ran you virus
protection? Just a thought - Craig

"KingMe" wrote:

> Lately, maybe for the last three weeks, when I shutdown my computer using
> Start, Turn Off Computer, Turn Off, the system goes through its normal slow
> process and then hangs at "Shutting down..."
> Even if I let it go overnigth, the system will be at the same point next
> morning.
> Something is not releasing the system. How can I find out what is causing
> the problem?
> I will appreciate some suggestions.
> --
> Using of Win XP Pro, FrontPage 2002, Outlook XP, Word-PowerPoint-Publisher
> 2002, Word 2002
> AMD Athlon 1.2, 512mb mem, 80GB disk, DVD and CD burners.
>

"KingMe" <KingMe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FA770346-715C-4E57-9D14-DEC5A4EA84A5@microsoft.com...

> Lately, maybe for the last three weeks, when I shutdown my computer using
> Start, Turn Off Computer, Turn Off, the system goes through its normal
> slow
> process and then hangs at "Shutting down..."
> Even if I let it go overnigth, the system will be at the same point next
> morning.
> Something is not releasing the system. How can I find out what is causing
> the problem?

There's good information on shutdown problems here:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm


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