Reply to Ed Bogert ---

Hi, Ed:

I work with some 2200 Win98 users, and this is a very, very common complaint. When all the patches and registry tweaks fail, I've found a fairly reliable workaround. Click Start/Shutdown, then check 'Restart in MS DOS mode' in the Shutdown dialog box. If this works (and, like anything else related to Windows, it doesn't always), you'll soon see a DOS-style C:\ prompt. When you do, you can just turn off your PC. It will start up normally -- no Scandisk -- and even 'shuts down' faster than 98 normally does.

FWIW,
Mike Brown


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Bogert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 9:07 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Windows shutdown problem


> How come when I try to shutdown Win98SE on my machine it won't shutdown?

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