Shutting Down - more problems. Or are they?

[WE Branch Fanatic]

Sorry to ask another potentially dumb question but..........

Every time I shut my PC down I get a box appearing on the screen telling me that certain programs are shutting down, then after a few seconds saying it cannot shut down manually, and asking me to quit.

Initially this was just intermittant, and involved NVIDIA twinview or something like that, but now it also comes up with hpoevm08.exe and AOLdial.exe.

My PC details are:

HP Pavilion a330.uk
260+ (1.91GHz)
AMD Athlon XP
256MB DDR
HP DVD writer
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX-440
64 MB video memory
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft works suite 2003
v92 ready modem
IEEE 1394 interface

Recently upgraded from AOL8 to AOL9.

Hmmm. What's going on?

Edit: Just exited AOL and shutdown - NVIDIA twinview and hpoevm08.exe stlll caused prompts to click to shut them down.

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

WE Branch Fanatic,

I would first try updating your nVidia Drivers:

nVidia ForceWare Drivers 66.93

If those do not fix the problem, you could try some older Drivers like the:

nVidia Detonator Drivers 41.09

Take Care,

Richard

[WE Branch Fanatic]

Is that self installing? Any idea about what to do with other process that won't shut down?

Also, recently this pc has been slow to boot up, which I assumed was due to the hard drive being full of video........however, today and yesterday at power up there was the usual pause and then a report - Windows has recovered from a serious problem..............

What's going on?

Edit:

The error report seems to have stopped. I download the (older) driver but it has made no difference. Why are these programs/processes not responding to the pc trying to shut them down? Arrrrgh

[freeride]

If you search Google for similar problems there is a registry edit that will kill all running programs on receiving the shutdown command. I have done it but it was so long a go that I can't remember how it was done!

[Toxteth O'Grady]

You need to change default Windows registry settings for 'Hung App Timeout,' 'Wait to Kill App Timeout,' and 'Wait to Kill Service Timeout' all to 1 second.

If you download CachemanXP (beggarware) here it contains these tweaks in the Miscellaneous Settings.

[freeride]

That's the ones!

[WE Branch Fanatic]

Yes, that download seems to do the job. Just got round to it today. First of all it was still having the shut down problems, until I clicked on "Autoend tasks" or words to that effect. Rebooted - shutdown - no problem. Thanks