I've found that when I'm using Norton's Anti Virus and I've powered it down
for    some reason i.e. doing cd burning, that when I go to shut down my
puter it stalls at the "windows is shutting down screen". My guess is that
if your problem isn't caused by your anti-virus software it will be some
other programme sitting in the background. I noticed you made the comment
about your problem happening "lately". Try to remember if you've installed
any new software on your puter lately.


At 00:23 1/02/99 -0800, Terry Bell wrote:
>    Hello, Lately when I select 'shutdown' I get some hd  activity and the
>usual 'please wait' splash screen but that's as far as it goes.  I have to
>control/alt/del to do the tedious reboot/virus scan and then go  through
>the equally tedious shut down procedure again. The second time  however,the
>machine actually gets to the,'it's safe to shut down Windows  now',splash
>screen and I can power down. How do I get to shutting down once as
>advertised?

            PCBUILD maintains many useful files for download
              on our web site - visit our download page at:
                     http://nospin.com/pc/files.html