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hanging while shutting down win 95

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by mdrao

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I took cable internet connection from AT&T six months back.Since then my windows 95 is not shutting down .it's hanging.this is happening only when I try to shut down after some time . if i shut down immediately ( with in 10-15 minutes)it is shuttingdown properly.Now every time I have to shutdown , iam reseting my PC.Any help is appreciated.

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by whoozhe

It sounds like you have a program running in the background after 15 mins or so.
When you nect Boot up do a Ctrl.Alt Del and see what programs are running. After 30 ins do it again and take note of nay new additions.
This may help you track down the program that is causing the shutdown problem.
There is an article on the microsoft Knowledge Base about this problem. Only one I can remember though is for Win98 but that may help Article is Q238096

by mdrao

Kevin, I tried that and I closed all the the programs showing when I pressed Control alt del and even then it hangs.Thanks for your response, I appreciate it and sorry for my late response.

by leo.valmores

Try this if it works:

Run Regedit and open the keys up to:

HK_Current_User/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion

Add a key under CurrentVersion and call this key as Shutdown

With the key created, you create a DWord value and call it LogoffSetting and assign a decimal value of 3

You create another DWord value and call it ShutdownSetting and assign a decimal value of 3

Close the registry editor.

Shut down the Pc and re-start. The next time you shutdown, it should go off and not hang.

Caution: Careful with editing the registry!!!

Hope this helps

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