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by techgirly

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I never have Shutdown problems on my home pc with OS Win98 unless I have been playing my mp3 files in Winamp! After Winamp has been on and I have been at sites such as Napster and WinMX I cannot shutdown my system properly with getting the friggin' Blue Screen that locks me up! This never occurs if I leave Winamp, Napster, etc.. alone. I have tried everything! Mainly doing a CTRL/ALT/DELETE just before shutting down to make sure nothing is running in the background. With EVERYTHING CLOSED, it still shuts down improperly and so I shut the damn thing off. Then next time I turn on cpu I have to go thru the whole scandisk deal before startup. Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, similar circumstances? I'm in dire need of assistance here. And it is NOT related to McAffee Virus software. It once was, but I have done fixed that problem long time ago. Thanx for any help!

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by ann777

Basically your computer has run out of resources and when you are trying to shutdown, there's not enough available resources to shutdown all applications properly. WinAmp or Napster may have a memory leak. You should be able to end-task on thesebefore powering off, but ultimately, you need to step-by-step through the above to resolve this permanently.

by ann777

Memory leaks are caused by improperly written programs. When you run or execute a program, it uses memory. When you close the program, it should end all use of memory it has grabbed in order to operate. Sometimes programs do not relinquish thatmemory... essentially, this is what is termed a "memory leak."

by saihib

Try running msconfig and disabling fast shutdown, if you haven't already. Sometimes if Windows has more time to shut down these problems go away.

by saihib

Every time you launch a program it reserves memory addresses it needs in order to run it's processes. When you close a program those memory addresses are supposed to be released for use by the OS or other programs. Sometimes when a program is closedthose memory addresses are not released and that is what they call a memory leak.

by techgirly

In answer to #1: Thanks for the website info. I will search for additional clues over the next few days and possibly in depth over the weekend. I am on a mission to get this fixed! Also, could you please go into a little more detail about what you mean by a "memory leak"? Appreciate it.

In response to answer #2: I think I will try disabling the fast shutdown thing. Will let you know by Monday if that worked. The BSOD from what I am trying to recall, don't have notes here at work, but it tells me a "FATAL EXEMPTION" has occured...and goes on a bit more but I can't recall the exact words.

by techgirly

In response to answer #2: I did disable fast shutdown on my computer last week. Since then I still encountered the same trouble shutting down correctly. Thanks for your idea, but I still need to look further. I think I will just have to write down the exact error message I get on the BSOD and go from there.

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