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Win ME will not Power Off

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by ncaa37

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I have upgraded to WinME from Win98. When I go through the proper steps to shut down...the PC will shut down put will the PC power will not shut off. I have to manually power off the PC or press the restart button. Then the PC wants to scandisk the HD.

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by dmiles

This may be a corrupt configuration or system.ini file not being loaded properly,i would sugest that you load the cd and rerun setup again.

by astrocat123

if you are running norton go to options under optoins got to auto protect advanced uncheck the 2 boxes that say scan for floppys the system as it is shuting down is scaning for floppys that arent ther also check your power managment in the control panel a make sure nothing is checked that says sytem standby hope this helps

by s6xtyn9ne

Make sure hybernate and stand-by are turned off. Goto power options in the control panel and set them to never. Also, if you are running aol 5.0, you will need to get 6.0 because 5.0 will cause winME not to shutdown.
Also, go into msconfig (start~~>run~~>msconfig).. In there, choose the startup tab and uncheck eveyrthing except for scanregistry, system tray, pchealth, and statemgr. Try that it shoudl work.

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