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  • April 23, 2000 at 4:18 pm #2081438

    Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

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    by lo · about 23 years, 1 month ago

    I have a friend who’s husband likes to play with the pc (he is getting better but …). After getting it working again, the Safe to Power Off message never displays. The … saving data to disk … displays, but is still there after 10-15 minutes. They have just been shutting it of (and getting away with it so far). I think the did a reinstall of Win95 but didn’t help. Any sugestions?

    lo

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    • April 23, 2000 at 5:02 pm #3899475

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by jokeman · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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      a thing to try… in win98 when u have a virus scanner loaded up, there is a patch at http://www.microsoft.com that stops the computer from freezeing before power down.. check to see if there are any win95 updates?

      also try msconfig….. click start button, runb, type msconfig, enter.

      now go to startup tab, uncheck as many programs as possible… then try shutdown.. also does your pc have standby mode?? if so try disabling that as well.

      good luck

      • July 3, 2000 at 11:44 am #3766943

        Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

        by lo · about 22 years, 11 months ago

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        Not sure if it helped or not. No one there seems to be willing to give them a try. Giving points to 1st 2 responders without reguard to help/nonhelp. Thanks to all for the help (some good suggestions).

    • April 24, 2000 at 1:35 am #3899464

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by salier · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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      McAfee virus scan could be the problem. I see alot of this, especially with IBM Aptiva’s. The easiest thing I’ve found to do is to remove the virus scan software from the startup menu. Hope this helps.
      salier

      • July 3, 2000 at 11:44 am #3766944

        Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

        by lo · about 22 years, 11 months ago

        In reply to Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

        Not sure if it helped or not. No one there seems to be willing to give them a try. Giving points to 1st 2 responders without reguard to help/nonhelp. Thansk to all for the help (some good suggestions).

    • April 24, 2000 at 1:43 am #3899463

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by turkey_bones · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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      This is actually a common problem. There is a fix to this at microsofts web site. You can download it for free.

    • April 24, 2000 at 3:01 am #3899460

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by jdkline · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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    • April 24, 2000 at 1:22 pm #3899430

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by l j quick sr · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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      Unfortunatly, Windows 95″ does not use the “msconfig” command, this is included in Windows 98″. But the anti-virus hint is a place to start,if there is an option to check floppies on exit uncheck it. Also the video driver may have an effect on theshutdown hangup. Restart in safe mode, right click on My Computer, click on Properties, Device Manager, Open all +’S and check for duplicate enteries. Remove all dups. You can try a generic VGA Display to see if that’s the problem, if so obtain thenewest video drivers. Shut down and restart. Also try “windowsupdate.mircosoft.com” for the newest win95 updates.
      Hope this helps.
      Larry

    • April 25, 2000 at 12:57 am #3899422

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by tontoscout · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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      Here is a reach, if you have a corrupted WAV file that you have playing when you exit windows, it will hang your machine up also.

    • April 25, 2000 at 3:06 am #3899414

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by inspectorclave · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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      You might want to also try this. Create a new shortcut on the desktop. In the “Command Line” box type the following:

      c:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows

      Make sure that there is a space between rundll.exe and user.exe, as well as NO SPACE between the comma and exitwindows.

      Call the shortcut “Shutdown”. When you double-click on the shortcut it should shut your computer all the way down. If it does, then there is a device driver that is hanging during your normal shutdown sequence. You can try uninstalling device drivers until you narrow down which one is the problem. Otherwise, you can tell the person to shutdown the computer by double-clicking on the shutdown shortcut.

      HTH,
      Inspectorclave

    • April 25, 2000 at 9:08 am #3899380

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by rage · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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      Win98 has a similar problem- I have seen many instances where the system will hang in the same way if you are using the Windows login for a network and you attempt to shut down without logging out first. I would check and make sure any accounts are logged out first.

    • April 28, 2000 at 3:07 pm #3899190

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by tysonmathews · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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      WINDOWS 95 is having a hard time shutting programs down. TRY THIS and narrow it down with different things shutdown manually.

      do a CTL/ALT/DELTE
      then begin selecting things to shutdown until you can say when you shut down a hypithetical program called “menoshutdown” and you kill it through CTL/ALT/DELTE and then it powers all the way down. You then know that “menoshutdown” is haing issues.

      GOOD LUCK!
      Redmond, WA

    • May 2, 2000 at 6:28 pm #3898997

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by adwait gupte · about 23 years, 1 month ago

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      You have not mentioned if he gets scand disk after starting the system if he does not the file could be missing. Thr logo of windows and the shut down bitmaps are stored on the hard drive as logo.sys,logow.sys and logos.sys just run a search for forthe three files and see if they are present.

    • May 9, 2000 at 3:50 pm #3898879

      Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      by saihib · about 23 years ago

      In reply to Win 95 Shtdwn, never get … Safe to Pwr

      Please check out Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q145926 – How to Troubleshoot Windows 95 Shutdown Problems. http://www.microsoft.com/support

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