Thanks, Jeff. That's what I have been doing but I'm a fussbudget and it bugs me when
things don't do what they're supposed to.
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Ray
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"Jeff Strickland" <crwlrjeff@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> No worries.
>
> Windows will fail to shutdown, and I'm surprised that you are reporting this. It's
> actually a pretty common event that the only way I have found to overcome is to press
> and hold the Power Switch on your machine and force it OFF, then turn it back ON again.
>
> The blue screen you report in not the infamous Blue Screen of Death, it's the normal
> blue screen (light blue) that windows displays during the normal and customary closing
> sequence. There is another blue screen that comes up when the machine is having a
> serious problem, this blue screen is the blue screen of death.
>
> In your case, there is something that's not closing properly, and your machine has hung.
> Press and hold the Power Button until it shuts down -- this should take upwards of 5
> seconds, but hold it for as long at it takes. The machine does not like to be shut down
> by pressijng the Power Switch, so they have put in a swtich in the BIOS that will
> prevent a momentary press of the Power Switch from shutting it down by accident. You
> have to press and hold the button until the power is cut off.
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> "Ray" <rbarone@nwi.net> wrote in message news:es9EKYP1KHA.752@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Sorry. I'm new around here.
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>> Ray
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>> "Jeff Strickland" <crwlrjeff@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:hpdcm1$vm8$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>> That's a Windows problem, not an Internet Explorer problem.
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>>> "Ray" <rbarone@nwi.net> wrote in message news:u9WSRMP1KHA.348@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> WindowsXP Pro Sp3
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>>>> The blue screen with the message "Windows is shutting down" hangs and will not close.
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>>>> Ray
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