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re: Windows 2000, Computer won't shut down
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 at 5:51 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by twi2e
(8 messages posted)
I really doubt mIRC is the program causing this. What I'd do would be to right-click
and exit all silly tools in the systray (lower right corner where the clock is) and
then try to shut down. If it shuts down nicely, one of those autostarting apps are
crap. Find out which one and uninstall it or configure it not to be active all the
time. Another idea could be to have a look in START/PROGRAMS/STARTUP and see what
stupid programs are automatically launched at startup, 90% of them are usually crap
and can be removed w/o problem. What you can do if you're unsure, drag-and-drop the
icons from startup to the desktop, all of them, reboot the computer so they're not
automatically started and then just shut it down - it just might work, and one of
those tools caused the problem. But mIRC causing shutdown problems - naaah, I don't
think so.
// TWI2E
On Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 9:43 am, Fred Adler wrote:
>I have Windows 2000 professional and was intruded by a program called mIRC (a chat
>room program) probably brought in through the firewall by my son (sound familiar?).
> Now I cannot get rid of the start up of that program window AND much more distressing,
>after stripping out a lot of junk, I cannot shut down. You try either from the
start
>menu or from control, alt, delete and it says it is doing it but when you check
status,
>nothing is happening and nothing does happen. What do I do? Reformat and start
>again or what?
>
>Thanks
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