XP Stops Responding at shut down
 

I have searched the forum for this problem but it appears that no one else has had this issue yet...

When I try to shut down my XP Home edition PC, it gets as far as the "Saving your settings screen" and then hangs. I can not even ctrl-alt-del from here. If I want to shut the computer down, I have to hold the on/off switch for 5 seconds.

Microsoft are useless as usual. They list the symptoms exactly but their proposed cure does not work:

1- Remove East Asian Language support
2- Turn off the welcome screen
3- Get the latest service pack and updates.

I have completed all 3 of the above but still no success. Can anyone help me please?

Try this, this and this from 'search' and if it happens after internet activity, this (from 'search':) )

BOAC, thank you thank you THANK YOU! problem solved. The link to the patch that cuts off user links to various applications (1) was the one I needed but along the way, I found a handy bit of software (2) which has resulted in my PC running noticeably quicker. All in all, a great day at the office! Oh, I did search (honest I did!) but I reckon I was entering too many words to get the results I needed


(1) From BLUE SKY THINKER
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en.

(2) From frostbite
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3120-...eck&tg=dl-2001

:D



(edited to repair the links)

Glad it is sorted, zedex - perhaps you can pop round and fix mine:)

BTW, your links are not working. As I don't have edit rights in this forum I cannot see where they have gone adrift.

:ok: I've fixed the links now.

The registry software (am I allowed to say which one I bought?) examines your PC and produces a list of applications that are started when windows starts. By searching the internet to find out what each one does, I was able to uncheck a box beside each one that I don't want to run and from now on, every time I start up the computer, a lot less memory is used up running these pointless things in the background.

Yes, not a problem! Personal recommendation is usually fair enough - where it becomes advertising is when you recommend your OWN product or promote your OWN shop (ditto by proxy).

Cheers

SD

In that case...

"PC Doc Pro 3.5"

Cheers

PC Doc Pro 3.5 is no doubt excellent, but pricey at $30 a seat!

"The registry software....examines your PC and produces a list of applications that are started when windows starts. By searching the internet to find out what each one does, I was able to uncheck a box beside each one that I don't want to run"

Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel does exactly that and costs exactly nothing.

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Of course PC Doc Pro has a Registry cleaner and various other goodies (but freeware equivalents aren't that hard to find on the Web).

Mac :ok:

Edited to add: Mike has a few other neat little tools available for free on his site - Clipomatic is one I use.