computer wont let me shut down properly
running XP

any ideas of a fix???? please

sell it and buy a Mac

Caber

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what he said!

[Edited on 6/7/07 by robertst]

a mac would be good but....


any help that can help??????

What happens when you try and shut down normally, any error or messages appear?

Troubleshooting guide
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

dont buy Vista absolute cr#p

Normalley the system is waiting for something to close, have you installed any new bits latley

Run ccleaner and remove anything you don't use. Take a look at your startup and see if anything is running that shouldn't be. Have a look in the task manager and see if anyhting is hogging cpu time or memory. ccleaner has a built in reg cleaner that fixes a few bugs too.

www.ccleaner.com

Or go to the Microsoft website (NOT!!!)
I can remember a help page I saw on there for frequent blue screens of death

Q. Have you recently run Auto-update?
A. No- run Auto-update
A. Yes- try roll-back to previous setting

Q. Have you updated all your device drivers?
A. No- update device drivers
A. Yes- roll-bakc drivers to previous settings

.... and on and on and on....

basically it was two pages of "whatever you've just done, undo it"!!!!

and of course it ended with

"the registry is corrupted. We suggest re-installing WindowsXP"

which of course was the only thing that worked.....

Grrrrrrrrr...........

i used to have to re-format and reinstalll windows once a year because the registry got so corrupted it wasn't worth it waiting five minutes for start up and six for shut down.

ended up not shutting down the computer and sleeping it instead... two months later the motherboard fries up

thats when a light from above shone on me and gave me a 20 inch imac G5...