Xp shutdown problem

I have an intermittent problem on shutting down. I have newly installed
a HDD and reinstalled XP Home SP2 plus applications. There were a few
problems which involved using system restore and some uninstalling but
everything seems to be working OK now. However, sometimes I get a
dialogue box saying 'program not responding' and sometimes the shutdown
is so slow that it seems to have stalled and a reset is required, then
it shuts down OK. This seems to happen when the machine has been on for
a long time and used for different things but I can't identify a pattern
and I can't replicate the problem.

I obviously don't expect anyone to come up with a solution with this
meagre information but I would welcome suggestions as to where I could
look. At the moment it is just a minor nuisance but if it get worse I
will reformat and reinstall - having done it once I know the pitfalls (I
hope!!).

Thanks

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"Denis Scadeng" wrote:

> I have an intermittent problem on shutting down. I have newly installed
> a HDD and reinstalled XP Home SP2 plus applications. There were a few
> problems which involved using system restore and some uninstalling but
> everything seems to be working OK now. However, sometimes I get a
> dialogue box saying 'program not responding' and sometimes the shutdown
> is so slow that it seems to have stalled and a reset is required, then
> it shuts down OK. This seems to happen when the machine has been on for
> a long time and used for different things but I can't identify a pattern
> and I can't replicate the problem.
>
> I obviously don't expect anyone to come up with a solution with this
> meagre information but I would welcome suggestions as to where I could
> look. At the moment it is just a minor nuisance but if it get worse I
> will reformat and reinstall - having done it once I know the pitfalls (I
> hope!!).
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Denis Scadeng
> denis@burdon.demon.co.uk
> http://www.burdon.demon.co.uk/
>

Denis

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Hope this helps.

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Denis Scadeng wrote:
> I have an intermittent problem on shutting down. I have newly
> installed a HDD and reinstalled XP Home SP2 plus applications. There
> were a few problems which involved using system restore and some
> uninstalling but everything seems to be working OK now. However,
> sometimes I get a dialogue box saying 'program not responding' and
> sometimes the shutdown is so slow that it seems to have stalled and a
> reset is required, then it shuts down OK. This seems to happen when
> the machine has been on for a long time and used for different things
> but I can't identify a pattern and I can't replicate the problem.
>
> I obviously don't expect anyone to come up with a solution with this
> meagre information but I would welcome suggestions as to where I could
> look. At the moment it is just a minor nuisance but if it get worse I
> will reformat and reinstall - having done it once I know the pitfalls
> (I hope!!).
>
> Thanks