windows 98 shutdown

When shutting down the programs you were working with will be consumed back to the Hard Drive. Often, the shut down procedure is faster than the consumption rate, and this will cause a user to get "Incorrect Shutdown" or a restart. It is no big thing, but more annoying than harmful.

Try the Disable Fast Shutdown option.
You get to it by doing a Start -> Run...
Type 'msconfig' on the command line and OK.
It's on the list of options in the Advanced button.

Hope this helps.

The restart could be caused by a virus that is attached to your machine,run anti-virus and scan disk for any drive errors.

Answer #2 is exactly what you need to do ...
Go to accessories / system tools / system information then on the tools menu click system configuration utility . Press the ADVANCED button and check / uncheck the "disable fast shutdown" . OK / APPLY and try to shutdown the system if it doesn't get solved on the first attempt , don't worry it will on your next few attempts .....

good Luck !!!

Hi number 2 is correst only if you have not down loaded the shut down supplement from MS. If you have well then the only way to get this back is to reinstall windows 98 or at least that's all I have found. I was expreincing the same thing and thatis what I had to do, I tried to uninstall to no availe. rockyolson@charter.net

When you select shutdown on the start menu are you sure that the shutdown option is checked and not the restart option. I know this seems obvious but I have had several users encounter this problem and thats how I fixed it.

The above are great answers - as long as you have the shutdown option in your system tools. If you don't, as I didn't, you need to run regedit and go to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Shutdown and make sure that the value for that key is 0 (off) and not 1 (on). This corrected the reboot on shutdown problem I had with my notebook.

I have seen this problem on alot of computers the reason is b/c of the new way Win 98 shuts down it has a feature called fast shut down, this feature is only designed to work with ATX motherboards (the one you cant shut down with the poewr button while windows is running, and you dont have to press a power buttton to shut it down) the way it works is that it sends a signal to the motherboard that windows has finished on this computer and the motherbaord tells that to the power supply and the power supply shuts down the power, your motherboard is a AT motherboard that does not support this so when windows shuts down with the fast shut down method its like restarting the computer b/c thats how an AT motherboard reads the above signal and your computer restarts.
What you have to do is disable fast shut down:
go to start>run type msconfig press enter click on advanced (or press ALT + E) and make sure "Disable fast shut down" is checked.

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