re: Question about 'When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the "Please Wait" screen'
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 at 8:29 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by steve wells
(1 messages posted)
forget unloading a sound wav. (that doesnt work) and having to hold the enter key.
the fix is to go to windows update and load the mapped shutdown patch. that will
cure this problem once and for all!
On Sunday, April 25, 2004 at 5:13 am, Wolfgang Wiebach wrote:
>I have a question about When
>I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the "Please Wait"
>screen:
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>The same thing happened to me all of a sudden: the computer hangs at "Windows is
>shutting down ..."
>The strangest thing about that: I re-formated the hard disk carrying Windows (my
>D drive) and
>restored all Windows files from a backup tape that was made BEFORE the shutdown
problem
>occured,
>and it STILL persists! A hardware problem?
>However, I found out that I can turn off the power as soon as that screen "Windows
>is shutting down ..."
>appears, without running SCANDISK or any other ill effects at the next bootup.
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