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re: Question about 'When I choose
Sunday, November 18, 2001 at 5:16 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Everett
(2940 messages posted)
Gene: the beep sounds (no pun) like a clue. Disable your exit sound in Control Panel>Sound
icon>Properties>click "Exit Windows Sound event">in the Name field, select "None".
For more tweaks see my post to Rob at r1005615210 (use the QuickLink after your
text below). I have also found that the shutdown is faster and smoother if you disable
your firewall just before you click the Shutdown button.
On Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 9:18 pm, Gene Goldstein wrote:
>I have a question about When
>I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the "Please Wait"
>screen:
>Running Win98SE and having done a CLEAN install of the operating system, I began
>to load my programs. I can't remember exactly at which point it "broke" but the
>problem is this, and ONLY this: My system will NOT SHUT DOWN. I get an audible
>BEEP after the shutdown screen appears (Which just sits there). The beep is from
>the pc builtin speaker and may be an important clue. This is not the usual "hang"
>problem. I use the power switch now to turn it off. After having done this, I
have
>checked the boot log and find that the system IS APPARENTLY TERMINATING OK, but
I
>don't feel I should leave it this way.
>
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/r1005615210
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