Here's the link to the MS troubleshooter I promised to send.
Gregg

http://support.microsoft.com/support/tshoot/default.asp?FR=0

Gregg Pfaff wrote:

> 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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