Xp stuck on windows is shutting down screen

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For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Windows xp is getting stuck at windows is shutting down screen. Thread starter pstevenson39 Start date Feb 10, Status This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies. The original thread starter may use the Report button to request it be reopened but anyone else with a similar issue should start a New Thread. Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Joined Jul 4, Messages 1. Hi I am new here and was not able to find any thing similar to my problem.

Monday, February 14, Applicatio n Error Faulting application picture. Thursday, February 17, Applicatio n Error Faulting application cwshredder. Any Suggestions? Help Please. Can anybody tell me what to do to solve this? I see that SpyBot has hung a couple of times. Have you tried using AdAware SE? Joined Feb 10, Messages Try Start - Run - type in "msconfig", and click the Startup Tab. Bottom Right, click "disable all", then apply, then close and have it reboot it will probably still hang on shutdown right now.

After you have it restarted, put a check in the checkbox of the system config utility window, and then hit OK. Now shutdown again. Did it hang again? If not, then there's something in the startup menu that is causing your machine to hang when it shutsdown. Now you can go back into msconfig, and start re-checking [one-by-one, and rebooting] the important ones usually you will only need your antivirus, firewall, and sometimes ISP software running.

See if this helps - you really want to keep your startup items to a minimum anyways. Problem solved!!! Thanks Bradly. WhitPhil Gone but never forgotten Trusted Advisor. Joined Oct 4, Messages 8, Bradly, I did what you suggested and it seems to work fine but I found out something that I do not know how to explain. When I used my computer for a short period of time it shutdown perfect but If I used for a long period of time it still hanging at "Windows is Shutting Down".

Open Command Prompt with admin rights and give the below command. Ideally, the shutdown process should go smoothly and is required every once in a while. Getting stuck on shut down screen is frustrating, but you shouldn't for hours either. If it's not working in minutes unless otherwise installing an update, follow this guide.

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Here's how you can fix Photoshop lag on Windows. It's quite easy to change the color of an object in Photoshop. Here are a couple of ways to do so in Photoshop for Windows. The mouse moves, but that is it. It doesn't respond to ctrl-alt-del, or any other input. This has been reported 5 times, and in all cases there is nothing in any log file that seems to indicate where the problem might be. I assume we have a bad driver or device, but the problem only happens once every shutdowns, and only after the machine is powered on for some time.

I just turned on verbose status messages, but they haven't shut the machine down since. What I'm wondering is: Is there some way to get windows to log all shutdown events?