WIN95 not shooting down

The shutdown problem could be caused by a bad or corrupt driver
Click Start,in RUN type MSCONFIG and use the Startup tab,deselect each item one at a time in the Startup menu to find out which program is causing the problem
Update the video driverto see if this will solve the problem

Higher caliber rounds may be required to shoot down windows properly. Just a suggestion. :)

Step-by-step through these that apply to your computer:

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

it seems like the win95 has been shot down and revived so many times that it has become immuned to passing out ....just adding to the humour ....

TRy ctrl/alt/del then shutdown each program one by one and then shutdown.. if you are able to shutdown then it is definitely a loaded program that refuses to shutdown before windows shuts down . You've got to remove this program from the startup tab by running MSCONFIG.EXE

good luck !!!

Article Q145926 in the Microsoft Knowledge base details how to troubleshoot Win95 shutdown problems in easy steps.

Hope this helps

Don't know what version of IE that you have on the windows 95 machine. Most of the time when windows 95/98 machines won't shutdown its because of a corrupt user.exe file. The last windows desktop update with a new user.exe file was IE 4 SP2 if you have IE 5 or newer none of these updated the user.exe If you haven't ever installed the IE 4's desktop updates you can extract user.exe from your 95 cabs if you have installed IE 4.XX then get the cabs for the last version of it such as IE 4 sp 2 andrun extract on its cabs to locate the user.exe file in either case extract to a temp dir first reboot to dos mode rename the user.exe in windows/system to user.xxx then copy the extracted user.exe into the windows/system folder. As a precaution to insure you have the correct file check the file dates and size.

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