Windows XP Shutdown
Wednesday, March 19, 2003 by Nezter | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
My system locks up when I try to shut down XP. It happens at the windows is shutting down screen. Help 
Green Armani
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:08 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:08 PM
My only guess would be that a program is attempting to shut down and is having problems doing so. Not so much one you ran but maybe a program running in the background. One good way to see if this is the case is to go into the task manager under applications and see how many and which ones you have running while windows is on. If you end one and then try to shut down and it does it successfully then it is a good chance that it was that program.
I will admit though that this could be risky if you end a program that windows needs so just make sure you know what you are doing in there.
Green Armani takes no responsilbility in adverse actions as a direct result of the above recommendation in can't be held liable
J/K
I will admit though that this could be risky if you end a program that windows needs so just make sure you know what you are doing in there.
Green Armani takes no responsilbility in adverse actions as a direct result of the above recommendation in can't be held liable
J/K
Nezter
Reply #3 Friday, March 21, 2003 4:59 AM
Reply #3 Friday, March 21, 2003 4:59 AM
There are no other programs running in the background. Every program shuts down properly, but the pc does not go any further than the windows is shuttting down screen. I also went to the link and did the download update with no luck.
Nezter
Nezter
stark23x
Reply #4 Saturday, March 22, 2003 5:21 AM
Reply #4 Saturday, March 22, 2003 5:21 AM
One thing I suggest with XP is PATIENCE. I was having an issue like that and at one point decided just to walk away in disgust. 20 minutes later the machine shut down, rebooted itself and ran fine ever since. XP is VERY self-healing if you let it. Most of my problems with it have been self-inflicted! 
Nezter
Reply #6 Sunday, March 23, 2003 1:56 AM
Reply #6 Sunday, March 23, 2003 1:56 AM
Still nothing new. I left in sitting there for about 6 hours. Still won't shut down..
citats
Reply #7 Sunday, March 23, 2003 2:59 AM
Reply #7 Sunday, March 23, 2003 2:59 AM
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q307274
is this the update u downloaded? if not try it.
is this the update u downloaded? if not try it.
Green Armani
Reply #8 Sunday, March 23, 2003 4:58 AM
Reply #8 Sunday, March 23, 2003 4:58 AM
Wow you have great patience....I have that problem from time to time and if it takes it more then 2 minutes to shutdown I manually do it which isn't helping it any 
Keila
Reply #9 Sunday, March 23, 2003 9:41 AM
Reply #9 Sunday, March 23, 2003 9:41 AM
Green Armani, I myself will do the same thing about 2 times and if things do not clear up I wipe the while thing out. I am slowly learning that it is better to try to figure out what the problem is but sometime wanting the problem to just go away takes over. 
Nezter
Reply #10 Sunday, March 23, 2003 3:02 PM
Reply #10 Sunday, March 23, 2003 3:02 PM
That's the link. It didn't work. I think I might have to reinstall XP and see what happesn..
DarkMist
Reply #11 Sunday, March 23, 2003 7:25 PM
Reply #11 Sunday, March 23, 2003 7:25 PM
i have same problem and the download for the file i need don't appear to be avaliable 
DarkMist
Reply #12 Sunday, March 23, 2003 7:27 PM
Reply #12 Sunday, March 23, 2003 7:27 PM
oh i reinstalled xp and it dont make any difference by the way
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Reply #1 Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:04 PM