re: XP shutdown errors Friday, December 26, 2003 at 2:23 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by John P. (1 messages posted) Same here, new Dell D500. Will restore system and try again. Could have been caused by putting in Norton a/v or shutting off restore point...probably a Dell script error using sysprep though... On Sunday, December 21, 2003 at 2:11 am, John wrote: >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. > > > Written in response to: re: XP shutdown errors (John: Sunday, December 21, 2003 at 2:11 am) Responses to this message: re: XP shutdown errors (RC: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 1:35 am) re: XP shutdown errors (Jan J Holvoet: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 at 2:33 am) 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