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Old February 15th, 2008, 05:17 PM
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xp shutdown

it only shuts down sometimes,it gets to the screen saying windows is shutting down but doesnt,have looked on microsoft page but nothing there covers it,and googled it with no success.
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Old February 15th, 2008, 06:48 PM
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This may interest you... http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

Your computer could be hanging on software or a driver that doesn't want to let go. How long are you wanting to shut down and what were you doing just before the times it wouldn't shut down right?
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Old February 15th, 2008, 08:20 PM
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This may interest you... http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

Your computer could be hanging on software or a driver that doesn't want to let go. How long are you wanting to shut down and what were you doing just before the times it wouldn't shut down right?
quite often the pc is idle for 10 mins to 30 mins then i go for shutdown for the night and it just hangs so have to press and hold power button then it shuts down
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