Win98 will not shut down

1. Make sure that the motherboard and video drivers are up to date. Many times, shutdown problems are related to video.

2. Microsoft has a couple of patches for shutdown problems with W98. It may be worth your while to install them. I would try updating the drivers first though.

3. There is a detailed guide to solving W98 shutdown problems at www.aumha.org

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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q202633 OR Article Q202633

Hi,

...and here is another good troubleshooting site...

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

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Cheers,
Tim.

I had the same problem today and did a bit of searching, found out that if you have Norton Anti Virus installed it can interferes with shut down process, I uninstalled my Norton anti virus and no more problems. Hope this helps

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