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re: Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 2:43 pm
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Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (4310 messages posted)


XP can take a "long" time to shut down if you have the security settings set to delete 
the page file at each shutdown, but I don't think that can account for five minutes 
of shutdown.

What's your antivirus and anti-spy/scumware status?



Written in response to:
Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (Michael Olley: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 12:34 pm)

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*re: Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (Michael Olley: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 12:26 pm)

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-Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (Michael Olley: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 12:34 pm)
-re: Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (naman: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 1:00 pm)
*re: Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (Michael Olley: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 12:21 pm)
*re: Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (Roger: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 1:26 pm)
-re: Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 2:43 pm)
*re: Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (Michael Olley: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 12:26 pm)
-re: Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (Steve B: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 4:50 pm)
*re: Windows XP hangs at 'Windows is Shutting Down' screen (Pete Wason: Fri, Feb 13, 2004, 6:15 am)
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