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Windows XP Must be Shutdown Twice

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by smicinski

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Suddenly I must click shutdown twice before my computer shuts down. Everything works fine when it does shutdown though. I go to Start and choose "Turn Off Computer", the menu pops up and I click on Shutdown. The screen flashes very quickly and then nothing. I click on Start and Turn Off Computer" again and click Shutdown and I shutdown perfectly but what gives? It seemed to start doing this for no reason I can think of. Help please!

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by bfilmfan

Scan the system for malware. You can get the Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta for free.

by dustyd

I wonder if it would act the same when you shutdown from safe mode. Next time you start up, do it in safe mode. Try running a couple of apps like you normally would, then try to shutdown.
Also, after you hit shutdown the first time, look at taskmgr to see what processes are running, then post back here the list.

by darrynmarr1979

could be a program running in the background that takes a lot of time to close, u see when u shut down all programs running on xp( with the exception of a few) try to save data before windows xp closes, could just be that

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