Topic: XP will not shut down... (Page 1 of 1)

I shut down; it starts up; I shut down again and it shuts off. But if I pick up the phone within 30 minutes XP is activated again.

I have paid 2 pros who could not fix it. (yes, yes, dumb, dumb) The 3rd said it was unfixable.


barlow

* fdisk

* reinstall

My guess is it's some kind of spyware or application is tring to communacate with a host via TCP/IP without your knowledge. Perhaps an expired firewall, virus checker, or even windows update is in use. Try Control-Alt-Delete and check you task list before you shut down next time and see what is running try killing a few questionable tasks before shutdown. I would also try running a virus and spyware killer just to be safe. Something is still active. Ether that or some how your power management settings in bios, control panels, or services changed.

It could be possiable that they are bad registry entrys and windows is hanging when it trys to perform it's shut down cleanup. Is your startup longer then normal? In which case a registry cleaner could help, but my also do more harm then good.

I use JV_1.6Powertools or it's simpler/basic version RegSupreme,
http://www.macecraft.com/

works very well I run it by weekly and have had no problems.



[This message has been edited by jstuartj (edited 10-14-2003).]

Meanwhile...the question stands as to why this is in the CSS forum?

Moving it to Ozones, although God knows we don't need more threads there.