Trouble Restarting

Not knowing the Operating Sys.,let's look at the video card and make sure it is updated with the current driver's
Secondlly you may want to run the anti-virus to check that you have picked up a virus from anywhere.
This also could be a memory problem,boot into safe mode choose step by step configuration and answer (Y) at he end of each line.Hope this Helps

If you have a virus software package on your computer, it can be setup by default to scan floppies, and system startup files at shutdown. Sometimes this causes the computer to take a long nap. Also, if you hit CTRL+ALT+DEL you will usually be ableto tell which program is "Not Responding", and that is your culprit. If it is always the same program, you might want to do an uninstall, or a reinstall over the top of what you've got running. I've run into this problem with McAfee Virus Software.

Another tip...if you are running Windows 98, if you go to START -> RUN, and type msconfig, you can see what programs are set to start up automatically. You'd be surprised what is in there. I've discovered that most of my system restart hangs are caused by all the programs running in the lower right hand corner in the system tray. This is were msconfig comes in handy. You can uncheck the program you think is causing the problem in the START UP TAB, shutdown the computer and restart, and if disabling that program doesn't stop the restart hang, you use msconfig again, go in and recheck it, and try another program. You can also use this feature in windows 95, but you need to copy the msconfig.exe utility out of the system folder to dothis.

I hope this helps.

Mike

Assuming its Win 95 /98, go into the CMOS and disable Video & BIOS Shadow.....

First, remove startup sound and shutdown sound, then clear out the C:\Windows\Temp file ( if there are programs in it remove them to another file) , clear out the documents folder , this can be done by Rt Clicking the taskbar , select properties, start menu programs , and clear the documents menu, Windows needs these areas for memory caching in some of its activities, and if you have Win 98 , run C:\WINDOWS\CLEANMGR.EXE (that is disk cleanup) , at this point you should have enough resourses cleared to do a normal reboot. One last memory hog is the clipboard, copy and paste a single word into a text file, this clears it.

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