re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen'
Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 5:56 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Glen Kussow
(1 messages posted)
I just wanted to say that I have the same problem. However, I blame myself for it,
not the computer. It shut down normally until I uninstalled a service pack for Windows
2000. I uninstalled this because it was taking up a large amount of space- silly
me! Now I have to hold down the power button to get the computer to shut down.
On Monday, July 8, 2002 at 4:51 pm, Tristan wrote:
>I have a question about When
>I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the "Please Wait"
>screen:
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>I have windows 2000 installed, and whenever I try to shut down my computer, everything
>seems to shut down fine at first, and it even makes a slight "poofing" sound at
the
>end (that always comes when turning my pc off), but my computer is actually still
>running. I have a black screen, but the lights on my pc are still on and I can hear
>the typical "pc is running" sound. (The ventilators I guess). Even hitting the on/off
>switch manually doesn't work to turn it off.
>The only way I can correctly shut down my pc with this problem, is by always hitting
>"restart" instead of "shut down" and then turning my pc off manually during early
>bootup. This is really annoying.
>Windows ME always shut down by itself correctly.
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|  | | |  | Fixed it! (Jonathan: Sun, Aug 4, 2002, 3:46 pm) |
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