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by dwaind

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I reinstalled W2K w\spk4 on a Dell Latitude D600.
After installing some drivers and software and
then tried to restart, I get a 'Ending Program-
Please wait' window, the title bar reads 'End
Program - Sample', after clicking on End Now, it
appears again and after ending it again it finally
reboots or logoffs, it does it for either option.
I can't track it down to get rid of it, I've
deleted all startup options including in the
registry and I don't see any services that it could
be linked too. By chance, has anyone seen this
and know how to get rid of it. I think it is also
interferring with installing some software programs.
I click on Setup and I get the hour glass and then
it sits there, but only on 3 programs so far which
is installed on everyones laptop or pc.

Thanks
Dwain

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by oz_media

Well I found a couple of ideas.

One relates to Dell installing IntelProSet Drivers that don't unload properly, same symptoms as you.
http://tinyurl.com/39e7n

This one pointsto an rgistry update file the will auto shut down any running tasks that cannot shut down by themselves.

http://tinyurl.com/17a

MAKE SURE YOU EXPORT A COPY OF YOUR REGISTRY BEFORE ANY CHANGES ARE MADE SO THAT YOU CAN RESTOE IT IF NEEDED.

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