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System Hangs on Shutdown (Network VXD fi

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by nhoek

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I am having a problem with a system haning during shutdown. It hands at the "Windows is shutting down" screen. System is Win 98 SE.

Now I have trouble shooted the problem to it being the "Vnetsup.vxd" file. If I do a selective start up and notprocess this file or boot to safe mode the system will shut down (thus being that it didn't load the network drivers).

I have tried uninstalling the network and reinstalling it and still the same problem. I also installed the Win 98 SE Patch.

Any ideas on how to work around this problem.

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by ann777

http://www.aumha.org/a/shutdown.htm

The above site has a lot of suggestions for Win98SE computers with the Shutdown problem. I suggest that you download MS updated patch and try that... but first print and try the suggestions at the above link.

You might try running msconfig and check selective startup and then go to the last tab and uncheck everything that you do not need to use. These are all programs that load when you first startup your computer and such things as printers will work without the drivers pre-loaded.

by walter_loh

anna solution helps a lot but somtimes it might be one of you pci card the create this problem , i have trouble shoot few pc with the same problem . Just unplug your pci card 1 by 1 until it shut down properly , i think is your nic .

If the above does not work trey to unplug only your nic and remove all the network settings and try

by cn_sanjeev2000

create a shortcut on desktop to rundll.exe file and right click on rundll shortcut go to shortcut tab and in target option type as follows C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows and say apply OK.

Hope it wil work
Sanjeev C

by quintar51

Do you have to network cards that are the same?

I had two 3com NICS once, and my system would hang when it shut down. As soon as I replaced one of the NICS with a different one, ie Dlink, I had no more problems.

by nicolaspt

Hi,

Try this workaround for Win98SE that does not shut down automatically. Hope you have installed the Win98 SE patches (Win98 shutdown supplement) successfully. Before you shut down, go to START>LOGOFF. Once you are successfully logged off andWindows Login Window appears, press CTRL+ALT+DEL keys. Select on Shut Down button.
Hope this will help.
Good Luck.

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