shutdown hangup

System: Gateway, Intel Motherboard D845GRG,ATI RADEON 9800 PRO video card,2.0g Processor, 512mm memory, 80g harddrive OS: win xp pro sp2. Attempted fixes: Disabled welcome screen, uninstalled/reinstalled vidoe card software, uninstalled/reinstalled memory sticks. All to no avail. any suggestions and help will be GREATLY appreciated. THANKS

Right click anywere in open area of desktop.. click "create shortcut"..In the "Type the Location of the Item" box, type shutdown -s -t 0. …Make sure theres a space after "shutdown"..After "-s"…and after "-t".. After your through click on the shortcut and see if that makes a difference.

tried your suggestion Crow, no help. thanks anyway. open to any other ideas

hmm..well.. you can use Fresh UI from FreshDevices.com. Its a good tweak app.. for the novice to the expert. You have to register for the key as its a trialware however, its free to reg. If you dont it will only last 30 days. FreshUI has a "fast shutdown" option in it.

fresh UI- fast shutdown says it is only supported on win 98se/me i hope you`r not out of ideas . i really don`t want to reformat.

Try this link
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

been to this site before, no help. thanks any way. happy new year.

Then you need to uninstall and reinstall the software that has the application that will not end.


(if you'll look through FreshUI, you'll see a setting that will be located around the "Stack Dump" setting that will allow you to control the length of time it takes before Windows regains control. That is what you need to set)

i checked taskmaster before shutting down and it didn`t show any applications running. i went through freshui, and either i`m blind, dense or both, i couldn`t find anything relating to the stack dump settings. i enabled " auto end applications" but it didn`t help. just want you to know how much i appreciate your help. please don`t give up.

Check the process's…. see which one is taking up the most resources, and post back as to what it is.

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You dont by chance have an update from microsoft waiting to be installed do you maybe?

All updates installed. critical, software & hardware.

i just noticed that the enevlope icon in front of my post has a black seal on it. does that mean iv`e been blackballed because my problem is a hopeless case?. if so please let me know so i can explore some other options. thanks for your suggestions.