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re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen'
Saturday, January 19, 2002 at 12:01 am
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Posted by leonie (6 messages posted)

On Friday, January 18, 2002 at 11:24 pm, GSM wrote:
>It could be as simple as a damaged sound file... not at all uncommon with Win98/Win98SE.
>Sound files are very small and can become corrupted very easily - doesn't take much...
>just shutting down Windows improperly can damage these sensitive file systems. Try
>this and tell me if it works: Go to your Control Panel and double-click on Sounds.
>Look for the box Exit Windows and either turn off the sound or pick another sound.
>Wouldn't it be nice if all Windows problems were this simple?
>
>

>On Friday, January 18, 2002 at 11:11 pm, leonie wrote:
>I have a question about When
>I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the "Please Wait"
>screen:

>
>I have tried all the problem answers to fix it but it still hangs is there n e one
>that has another idea that can fix it cause it is driving me crazy thanks
> thanks for the help but it didn't work I tried all the stuff in here to fix it but it just wants to pee me off

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re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (GSM: Friday, January 18, 2002 at 11:24 pm)

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Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (leonie: Fri, Jan 18, 2002, 11:11 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (CoolSights2000: Fri, Jan 18, 2002, 11:15 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (leonie: Fri, Jan 18, 2002, 11:20 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (CoolSights2000: Fri, Jan 18, 2002, 11:31 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (GSM: Fri, Jan 18, 2002, 11:24 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (leonie: Sat, Jan 19, 2002, 12:01 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (leonie: Sat, Jan 19, 2002, 12:22 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (sam: Thu, Jan 16, 2003, 9:14 am)

here is link to mircosoft a-z of causes (CoolSights2000: Fri, Jan 18, 2002, 11:39 pm)

re: here is link to mircosoft a-z of causes (leonie: Sat, Jan 19, 2002, 12:21 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Jerome M. Kreiner: Thu, Feb 28, 2002, 11:27 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Tim P.: Thu, Oct 10, 2002, 10:22 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (R.D.Santangelo: Tue, Apr 23, 2002, 9:55 am)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Michael Kealy: Wed, May 1, 2002, 6:01 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (JABecker: Thu, May 9, 2002, 4:50 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Vijay: Fri, Jan 9, 2004, 9:09 pm)

re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Nellson: Mon, May 31, 2004, 8:47 pm)

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