re: XP shutdown errors Sunday, December 21, 2003 at 2:11 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by John (1 messages posted) I have the same problem on a Dell m600 laptop, and it's driving me crazy. The taskbar is slow to respond on startup, and an "End Program - Sample" box pops up when I close down, with a loading bar (I don't know if these are connected). I scanned for viruses using an up-to-date symantec utility and TrendMicro. Ran Adaware and Spybot. Searched for any files with "Sample" (there was a Sample.mov from quicktime and some Sample.WSB files -- I don't know what they did, but all were accessed currently). I removed them to the recycle bin, and uninstalled quicktime. Ran msconfig and services.msc to get rid of just about all the start up programs...but I still haven't fixed the problem. On Thursday, September 11, 2003 at 10:04 am, MLS wrote: >Try looking in Task Manager to see what is the name of this program. Run a search >of your drive(s) to see where it resides. Perhaps you will then be positioned to >determine if it is one that can safely be removed. > > Written in response to: re: XP shutdown errors (MLS: Thursday, September 11, 2003 at 10:04 am) Responses to this message: re: XP shutdown errors (John P.: Friday, December 26, 2003 at 2:23 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] XP shutdown errors (ed: Thu, Sep 11, 2003, 9:04 am) re: XP shutdown errors (MLS: Thu, Sep 11, 2003, 10:04 am) re: XP shutdown errors (John: Sun, Dec 21, 2003, 2:11 am) re: XP shutdown errors (John P.: Fri, Dec 26, 2003, 2:23 pm) re: XP shutdown errors (RC: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 1:35 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Darkhobo: Thu, Jan 15, 2004, 8:47 am) re: XP shutdown errors (MattW: Fri, Apr 2, 2004, 7:59 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Nicholas Holland: Tue, Jun 1, 2004, 9:40 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Chris Villanueva: Tue, Jul 6, 2004, 11:03 am) re: XP shutdown errors (FloH: Thu, Aug 26, 2004, 2:04 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Kevin: Wed, Dec 1, 2004, 12:20 pm) re: XP shutdown errors (Daniel: Mon, Dec 13, 2004, 12:55 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Ken: Tue, Dec 14, 2004, 9:49 pm) re: XP shutdown errors (Jan J Holvoet: Wed, Dec 15, 2004, 2:33 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Hokahey: Thu, Jan 15, 2004, 7:27 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Robiom: Tue, Jul 6, 2004, 2:00 am) re: XP shutdown errors (joel08: Sun, Jan 21, 2007, 10:31 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Dwight Peck: Thu, Mar 1, 2007, 3:02 pm) re: XP shutdown errors (Richard: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 12:16 pm) re: XP shutdown errors (Dennis: Sat, Mar 4, 2006, 12:46 am) re: XP shutdown errors (brian: Sun, May 21, 2006, 7:24 am) re: XP shutdown errors (prshtr: Thu, Jun 1, 2006, 8:29 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Vikas: Sat, Jun 10, 2006, 2:33 am) re: XP shutdown errors (prshtr: Sat, Jun 10, 2006, 5:16 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Irishman: Sat, Jun 17, 2006, 12:14 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Ronald T: Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 9:45 pm) re: XP shutdown errors (Dilip: Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 3:00 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum