Windows XP hangs at shutdown.

Windows XP hangs at shutdown, I've removed Power Management from my USB Hub, and disabled my antivirus program, no joy, anybody got any recommendations, if so please email me at email address removed - Newt, thanks.

 

Hi dhouse and welcome.

- Hangs at what point?
- New behavior or if not, when did it start?
- What flavor of XP and what SP?

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Windows XP Pro hangs at shutdown

Hello Newt

It seems to hang at the very last stage of shutting down, then I have to hit the reset button.

It may have started when i attempted to upgrade my memory, but not sure, the computer did not detect the memory I wanted to upgrade to, so I put the orginal memory back, I think that's when it may have occurred. When I did this I was running Win XP Pro SP1.

I am running Win XP Pro SP2. I believe it has something to do with a windows shell, but I can't find the download for the fix.

 

This is usually caused by a driver misbehaving.
There is a good troubleshooter over here: http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

 

Thanks JoeHobart, I'll try the troubleshooter and let you know the results.

 

Windows XP Pro hangs at shutdown

I think the problem has been resolved, it is beleived to be a memory issue, I have learned that the SDR ramm PC133 is not compatiable with my 733MHZ CPU, I but in a PC100 and problem went away, so now I stuck with 2-PNY 256MB PC133 SDRAM chips, but I'm willing to trade with someone if they have any PC100 256MB or higher.