I had the same problem with my system after I installed a new hard drive and win95os2. I went to a
windows OS troubleshooting web page and followed the guide which told me that it was a high memory
problem during shut down and told me to add these lines to the config.sys file:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=A000-F7FF
then all was well again. I'll try to send a link to that troubleshooting page if I can find it
again.
Gregg



Russell Smith wrote:

> Paul Roeth wrote:
> >
> > I've just installed a new CDW and some music software.  Now upon doing a
> > shutdown the computer hangs on the "Windows is shutting down your computer"
> > screen.
>
>    We had about 43 new Dell machines that hung on shutdown and I fixed
> all of them by changing the Shutdown wave file in Exit Windows (Control
> Panel/Sounds). Even if it was set to None I changed it to a wave file
> and then they all shut down perfectly. Worth a try.
>
> Later,
>
> Russell Smith
> Edtech Consultant, Journalist
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