25 Sep 2003, 07:22, Tom Walker (1:202/1324), wrote to Matt Mc_carthy:

Hi Tom.

 ->>  TW> Well sometimes Win98 just decided it is NOT going ot Shut 
 ->>  TW> down typicaly hangs up on the Win98 Shutting Down screen. 
 ->>  TW> THWIS is Even after following ALL the instructions in the MS 
 ->>  TW> knowledge base AND installing the Shutdown Patch. Then one 
 ->>  TW> needs to do a Power Shutdown and HOPE something dosen't get 
 ->>  TW> scrambled by the Scan Disk that rund  onthe next boot up.

 ->> I had that problem early on in Win98SE, but fixed it the simple 
 ->> way, easy to do, and easy to undo if necessaary.
 ->> I DON'T know if this will work AFTER installing Microsoft's 
 ->> "Shutdown Patch", but easy to reverse it...
 ->> Go the the "Start" menu, click on "Run",
type: msconfig
 ->> On the first screen, the "General Tab", look near the
bottom right 
 ->> and click on "Advanced", this brings up Advanced
Troubleshooting  ->> Settings".

 ->> Third line from the bottom is a line "Disable fast
shutdown".  If 
 ->> there is NOT a check in the box for that line, put a check in
the box  ->> and click OK.

 ->> That was all my system needed, no patches, no updates, nothing 
 ->> else.  Simply put, Microsoft's "Fast Shutdown" is
broken and has to 
 ->> be disabled.

 TW>  Sorry, My Win98SE dosen't have that selection on the "Advanced" 
 TW> Screen under the "General" Tab in MSCONFIG. 

How odd!  I now wonder whether Microsoft's "Shutdown Patch" might
have automatically removed that option.

????????


     Good luck...  M.

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