Windows 98 won't shut down?

[Typhoon Thompson]

Had my PC for about 5 years, and have never had any major problems.

Now all of a sudden I can not shut down 9 times out of 10. When I click on the start button to get the option to shut down the start button depresses and sticks without any options coming up.

If I ctrl/alt/del and try to shut down that way nothing happens either. So I have to actually turn the power off each time I shut down now.

I have run lots of Virus checking stuff and checked for adware etc.

Any help would be great.

[jezzace]

Windows 98 is pretty terrible, when's the last time you reinstalled it? I know when I had it for years I had to reinstall at least every 7 or 8 months to get it back to norm.

[Hohum]

Mmm, sounds like one of those Win98 oddities that occur for no apparent reason, hehe. Still, could be worse... if you were running WinME, it would prolly BSOD on you instead

I don't know what the cause could be. You could try downloading a program called enditall, which will allow you to close processes that could be causing the issue, but this would only be a workaround. I'd personally reinstall, or upgrade to a newer o/s such as Win2K or XP.

[Tom Salter]

There was a patch released for this, it's a known problem.

Search on support.microsoft.com for it.

[Typhoon Thompson]

Thanks for that.
It seems to have cured itself today for some reason.

I will check on the microsoft sight for updates or try to acquire a newer OS.

[djtickle]

There was a patch released for this, it's a known problem.

Search on support.microsoft.com for it.

yeah i remmber this well, dont know if it will be the same for you but i seem to remember it occured with PC's that had network cards installed. Somthing to do with windows not stopping looking for networks connections when trying to shut down.

[Tobal]

I've got this problem at the moment, im using win2kpro and until installed the new windows update earlier this week, shutting down either takes forever or not at all.