>Subject: Re: Win95 Shutdown

>>This evening while helping someone install memory in a P5-133 Gateway with
>>the original release version of Win95, I noticed that the familiar "It is
>>now Safe to Turn Off your Computer" message that normally appears on every
>>other Win95 machine I've seen a few seconds after clicking start, shutdown,
>>shutdown the computer did not appear on this machine.  The monitor went
>>black and the system appeared to shut down.  I asked the owner about it and
>>was told it had always been that way, and that tech support at Gateway had
>>told them two years ago that some PCs  just did that and not to worry about
>>it.  Has anybody got any thoughts about this?

>Phil
>Could this be an ATX machine?  They usually shut themselves down.  Very nice
>feature I have found out.
>Ron

No, it has an AT board.  When I rebooted the system (after the unusual
shutdown), there was a Win95 error message I had not ever seen before
stating something to the effect that the registry needed to be replaced
from a back up copy.  I clicked on the only button available on the error
screen and the system rebooted.  On a subsequent shutdown the "It is now
Safe to Turn Off your Computer" message was absent again as described above
and then the same error message appeared on boot up. The owner never shuts
the system down so it had never been perceived as being a real issue.  I am
concerned that eventually this will cause a real problem and of course an
inconvenient time.  Is there any fix, or should Win 95 be re-installed?  If
so, what is the best way to reinstall Win95 over an existing installation?

Phil