re: Unable to shut down/restart Windows
Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 10:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Keith Parker
(1 messages posted)
I finally solved this by going into task manager and killing explorer.exe. Then I
did a control-alt-delete and selected restart; it worked fine then.
On Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 5:49 pm, Mike wrote:
>Everyone say it with me...."ZONEALARM!!!"
>
>Although I really like(d) ZoneAlarm, every 2 years they seem to release a supremely
>buggy version for XP. (I think they're focusing so much on Vista, that they scrambled
>XP compatibility).
>
>My system felt buggy for about a while and displayed these exact symptoms described
>above:
>-the dialog box with the "Moving..." title showing the "windows is currently working
>with a file" message,
>-cannot shut down. Windows is working with a file,
>-could not Ctrl-Drag-Drop (ie. Move) files, (althought copying, THEN deleting worked)
>-pressing the power button would allow hiberantion, eventhough windows could not
>be shut down,
>-etc ect.
>
>Every message I googled focused on playing with TaskManager, but to no avail.
>
>I finally just reformatted/reinstalled XP on a new drive. I tested it with a fresh
>install and moving a file worked great. I installed ZoneAlarm, and bingo, I had
>same problem. I uninstalled Zonealarm, rebooted, and Moving worked great again,
>and all those issued disappeard.
>
>It's definitely ZoneAlarm.
>
>-Good luck on your mission, should you choose to uninstall it.
>
>Cheers,
>-Mike
>
>
>
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