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re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen'
Monday, June 30, 2003 at 11:40 am
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Posted by Parivesh (1 messages posted)


I have the same problem and I solved it by disabling my 32-bit driver. go to control panel, system, performance, file system, troubleshooting, and then put a check on disable all 32-bit drivers.


On Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 2:19 am, Colin wrote:
>One of the things I've found is that AOL can cause this problem because a part of
>its code becomes corrupt. Specifically, a program CFNDIS that is meant to close
>the comms CFOS manager of AOL - up to at least version 7.0 - may not terminate and
>that leaves the message 32 bit program not terminated in the bootlog.
>
>I haven't yet found a way round this as AOL don't seem to know whether they use CFOS
>now or not!! I'll keep you posted.
>
>Colin
>
>


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re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Colin: Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 2:19 am)

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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' (Michael Paine: Tue, May 7, 2002, 3:28 pm)
-re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Marcus: Tue, May 7, 2002, 3:42 pm)
-re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (John: Wed, May 15, 2002, 5:49 am)
*re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Marcus: Wed, May 15, 2002, 6:13 am)
-re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Colin: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 1:00 pm)
-re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (John: Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 7:23 pm)
-re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Colin: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 2:19 am)
*re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Parivesh: Mon, Jun 30, 2003, 11:40 am)
*it takes forever for my aol to shutdown after i signoff, my wife's computer shuts off i a second?? (vincent faso: Sat, Sep 6, 2003, 7:04 pm)
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