Mine does the same thing.  Its because of the stuff that's loaded.  If you
watch your HD light, it flashes a couple of times during
that time. at least mine does.

IF you want to find the culprit that could be causing it, goto start > run>
and type msconfig and it enter.

In that you can control which drivers and stuff you want to load.

--Patrick Black
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~black27/
----- Original Message -----
From: Sixto Balicoco <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 1:49 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Win98 won't shutdown!


> Hi,
>
> I have Win98 in my system.  Everytime I install a new application, it asks
me to
> exit all windows programs running.  So  I hit  ctrl + alt + del   to  'end
task' all the
> application running in the background EXCEPT  explorer and systray, then I
proceed
> back on installing the new software.  However, after the installation is
finished, it would ask me to re-start the system (which I normally do even
with Win95).And when  all the displays are gone the screen would give me a
prompt 'Windows 98 is shutting down'
> and it will stay there forever.  No actions ever taking place.  I guess
I've waited long enough to see something happens.
>
> So what I do I force to shut the power off (or reset) to reboot the
system, and this is
> the message I get : 'The system was not shutdown properly, etc, etc, etc."
then it will
> make me go through the process of scandisk which alway takes awhile to get
done.
> Is there any other suggestions how to get around this problem ?  Thanks
for any help.

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