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Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 10:22 am
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Posted by Tim P. (5 messages posted)

Hey Jerome! You tip works PERFECTLY! I have been looking for this soulition for 2 weeks now. I had a Win98 ( first edition ) PC that had the shut down freeze problem. What a simple fix!!! Thanks!!

On Thursday, February 28, 2002 at 11:27 am, Jerome M. Kreiner wrote:
>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"
>

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

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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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