Well it says shutting down, but it doesn't. I think I got a bug in the system. I tried system restore, but that didn't work. Any suggestions, beside trying Raid
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:biggrin: My computer wont shut down.
- Thread starter Brian HCM#1
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Pull the power plug
Yup. If it's Windows, just live with it or reinstall the OS. 
Need some further info:
- Does it really just NOT shut down, or do you just not wait for it? If you let it run for long enough, will it eventually shut off?
- Do you have any other symptoms of a problem - error messages, hardware that doesn't work properly, anything like that?
- Do you have Roxio EZ CD Creator?
- Do you ever defragment your drives?
- Does it really just NOT shut down, or do you just not wait for it? If you let it run for long enough, will it eventually shut off?
- Do you have any other symptoms of a problem - error messages, hardware that doesn't work properly, anything like that?
- Do you have Roxio EZ CD Creator?
- Do you ever defragment your drives?
You can try this:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
It cleans up your user profiles which often cause slow shutdowns and other problems.
Also, you can shut off page file clearing when shutting down. Do:
Start
Run
Type "regedit"
Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
The value if "ClearPageFileAtShutdown" should be 0. If it's not, change it to 0.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
It cleans up your user profiles which often cause slow shutdowns and other problems.
Also, you can shut off page file clearing when shutting down. Do:
Start
Run
Type "regedit"
Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
The value if "ClearPageFileAtShutdown" should be 0. If it's not, change it to 0.
It just sits there without shutting down, everything else appears to be working properly, however I'm now having trouble accessing a security sire for work.
I don't have Roxio
Yes I've defragmented the drives and still now help.
I did what you said on the next post and still no workie
Time to reinstall windows, sorry. You can fight with it for hours and never find the problem, or reinstall and have a fresh start in 60 mins.
Windows loves to do these things. I have a friend who's machine just stopped recognizing the floppy last week. The floppy is needed for work, and he has to at the very least, salvage what's on them. (professor, years of stuff on probably corrupt by now floppies).
We went as far as pulling the floppy and pluging into my server tomake sure it wasn't a hardware issue. Windows says the drive is installed, drivers are installed and it's currently working perfectly. mm hmm.
Windows loves to do these things. I have a friend who's machine just stopped recognizing the floppy last week. The floppy is needed for work, and he has to at the very least, salvage what's on them. (professor, years of stuff on probably corrupt by now floppies).
We went as far as pulling the floppy and pluging into my server tomake sure it wasn't a hardware issue. Windows says the drive is installed, drivers are installed and it's currently working perfectly. mm hmm.
How long have you left it for to see if it'll shut down?
Transcend; delete all the devices, including your IDE controllers, and let Windows recognize them again. Works 9 times out of 10.
Yup, been there done that. It's ridiculous that an operating system just "forget" it's hardware. ugh.
at leat your computer turn's on my home pc does'nt even turn on
Have you recently installed any software? Do you have adaware/adwatch? I have had adwatch make mine hang up on shutdown before. If I taskmanage and end task adwatch it will let me shutdown properly.
Still no workie
