Windows XP Tips 5 - XP Won’t Completely Shutdown
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I've had this particular problem more than once myself and I'm ashamed to say but it actually took me a few years to finally find a cure for it.
The problem is that there's times when, for whatever reason, Windows will refuse to completely shut down, forcing you to eventually just hit the power switch because it just "hangs" during shutdown.
Granted, there are times when Windows will just take a bit longer to complete the shutdown process but if you walk away and ten minutes later it still hasn't finished shutting down, I think it's safe to say that unless you hit the power button, it never will.
Here's a fix I found (no, I don't remember where) that took care of it for me.
Open the Control Panel, then goto Power Options.
Click on the APM Tab and then check the "Enable Advanced Power Management support."
Shut down your PC. It should now successfully complete the Shut Down process.
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nice article., very informative =)
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Interesting. Happens with my Vista PC too. I suppose that you have to enable that setting before you’re trying to shut down? Once it hangs during shutdown, most of the time it does not do anything anymore.
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