OK, I did as suggested and disabled McAfee VirusScan. (Actually, I did it
one better, and blasted the thing away.) Now, the computer doesn't get hung
up on start up. Ah, progress!
Now, I want to deal with it getting hung up on shut down. I have a 2 year
old HP 8380, running Windows 98. Following normal shut down, it turns the
whole computer off. For quite some time, I have been experiencing various
problems shutting down, with no particular pattern. In fact, on rare
occasions, it totally surprises me, and it operates normally. At various
times:
- I get one of the program not responding boxes for "Indexing" or something
like that (even though I have never seen something like that when I do
alt-cont-del to see what's running), or
- I get to the Windows shutting down screen and it just stays there (the
liar!) or
- I get a blank screen.
Thoughts, comments, suggestions, donations?
William Closure
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