re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 11:27 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jerome M. Kreiner (2 messages posted) Try going to start-regedit-and then do the following.. Add the string Shutdown and give it a value of 2 Then give the FastReboot a value of 2.. Reboot..it should work! [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\control\Shutdown] "FastReboot"="2" "Shutdown"="2" 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 > Written in response to: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (leonie: Friday, January 18, 2002 at 11:11 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Tim P.: Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 10:22 am) All messages in this thread [show all] 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum