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  • December 7, 2001 at 4:12 am #2130856

    Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

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    by tkress · about 21 years, 6 months ago

    What are some fixes to an intermittent, hanging Windows 98 shutdown screen?

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    • December 7, 2001 at 4:33 am #3546216

      Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      by ann777 · about 21 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      Intermittant problems are difficult to resolve… but here’s a great site for stepping through most (if not all) of the issues with Windows’ shutdown problems:

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

      Mostly it has to do with the quantity of resources being used when you do the shutdown. If you right-click on My Computer –> normal-click on Properties –> Performance tab, you will see the amount of free system resources. If it’s less than 80%, windows will probably not shutdown properly at that point it time. If you close out some of the active programs, then the “free” system resouses “should” increase (but does not always — you may have a memory leak in some of the not well written programs).

      But step through the above procedures for troubleshooting this, and you should get better results from Windows.

    • December 7, 2001 at 5:05 am #3546203

      Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      by jkline · about 21 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      also try this:

      http://www.user-friendly.net/download/download.htm

      4756us8.exe is supposed to be a fix for Windows 98 shut down problems, but I have not tested it myself. If you do test it and it helps, let me know. I got this from http://www.bootdisk.com, which is a great site for such things.

      Joe.

    • December 8, 2001 at 3:10 am #3546608

      Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      by caquino3759 · about 21 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      Go to microsoft.com and search the Knowlege Base under Windows 98, there are a couple of shutdown patches there that I have used that do work.
      Chris

    • December 10, 2001 at 12:57 am #3549442

      Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      by thechas · about 21 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      Every time I’ve had a serious shutdown problem with 98 it has been a video driver issue.

      Make sure that your video card bios, chipset drivers, and video driver are the latest versions for Windows 98.

      Also, use Windows Update and install all critical and security updates.

      Finally, use a registry cleaner to clear up loose ends in the registry that can get in the way. RegClean from Microsoft is free, but limited in function. Win Doctor from Norton, or the Fit-It utilities from Mijenix do a decent job of cleaning up registry errors.

    • December 11, 2001 at 11:49 pm #3568416

      Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      by s_fishel · about 21 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      USB devices have been known to cause lagging shutdown

    • March 7, 2002 at 2:55 pm #3437769

      Windows 98 Shutdown Issue

      by tkress · about 21 years, 3 months ago

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