hey

this has been happening for to long now so i am posting it, everytime i shutdown my computer it doesnt actually shut down, it freezez on the "windows 98 is shutting down" screen, since there are no programs that could be not responding because once that screen appears, everything in ended, and yet my computer is not being shut down properly because i always have to hit the restart switch and then the shut down switch, so my computer never is shut down properly.  PLEASE HELP

i don't know much bout 98 but if it happened to me, i'd back EVERYTHING up and then reformat, sure to fix the problem.

i'm not advising you to do that tho

reformat, whats that????

it's when you put in the windows disk that should have come with ur pc and wipe everything off the pc and then it puts it back on

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Originally posted by Violet
reformat, whats that????

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i dont think i'll be doing that, its a bit rash, and our computer guy is retiring *tears* so i aint doin nothing to destroy my computer, *yes i  assume eveything to its worse extent*. is there any other possible cause of my problem???

When i had this problem before the only solution was to format.
Do a virus scan because its was lots of viruses that caused my problem. Although the AV didnt fix it.

it cant be a virus because i do a scan everyday, im not sure if i even have my windows 98 disk, our computer guy keep's most of that i think.

format is the same as reformat

is there any other way to fix this problem, how about defragmenting the computer??

...lol, (re)formatting isn't always the best solution
(And defragmenting won't change anything)

...But this "Windows 98 (SE) freezes at shutdown screen" is a known problem, I had it once too...well it got *fixed* somehow, now it reboots everytime I try to shut it down and boots as soon as the power switch is back on

I was just too lazy to fix my shutdown prob and used the brute force of my power switch

There are quite a few articles about this on microsoft.com, for example
Problems Shutting Down Windows 98 Second Edition,
How to troubleshoot Windows 98 shutdown problems,
Windows 98 Second Edition Shutdown Supplement
And a patch from Microsoft that should fix shoutdown problems (lol), available here.

ok, thanks, i'll read those

wtf!:\

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Originally posted by Violet
scan everyday,

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Scanning every day and scanning twice a year are the two extremes...I think one or two scans per month are perfectly okay.

Btw, disabling fast shutdown in the registry and applying the Patch just fixed my shutdown probs.

i also had a similiar problem.
It ended up being my video card. It had some "bugs" in it. Once i switched video cards, the problem went away
So this very well could also be a hardware issue

i scan my computer lots because i have some weird well known history of gaining viruses ovenight, we once gained a TROJAN BACKDOOR overnight, *crys*. my computer has already been reformatted twice and aint gonna be done again

You should scan for viruses once a week and update your virus definitions daily.

Scanning for viruses multiple times everyday is a bit radical and, although it won't do any harm, you probably won't catch anything in such a short space of time.

I dont see the use in scaning non stop when infact most viruses come from running you dodgy file you got sent. IMO the best anti virus is common sense.