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Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen'
Tuesday, May 7, 2002 at 3:28 pm
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Posted by Michael Paine (6 messages posted)

I have a suggestion about When I choose "Shut Down" from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the "Please Wait" screen:

Both my PCs (one WIN95 the other WIN98) now fail to shutdown and hang at the "Please wait" screen. I have resorted to selecting "Restart in MS-DOS" from the shutdown menu. This closes Windoews and displays the DOS prompt. The computer can then be switched off and will happily load Windows when it restarts. A big annoyance is that it doesn't remember the shutdown menu selection for next time. In fact my PCs default to the "log-on as a different user". See http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/aoaug/ms_dig.html for more comments about Windows.

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'When I choose ''Shut Down'' from the Start Menu, my computer hangs at the ''Please Wait'' screen' (Marcus: Tuesday, May 7, 2002 at 3:42 pm)

it takes forever for my aol to shutdown after i signoff, my wife's computer shuts off i a second?? (vincent faso: Saturday, September 6, 2003 at 7:04 pm)

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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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