Windows halts at "Windows is now shutting down"

[Tushar]

I regularly had Windows 98 SE protection fault error at every ALTERNATE boot, requiring me to take a safe boot and then a normal boot. I properly shutdown everytiem, there is no power failure ( I am on a UPS). So I reinstalled win98 SE. Now windows stops at "Windows is now shutting down" screen for ever. I tried MS KB articles, but none of them seems to work.
One thing is sure windows doesn't tell me that it was improperly shutdown & on verifying by Scandisk there are no errors.
Please let me know.

[Jvaguy]

windows 98 se had a shutdown patch on the windows update site .. also check your antivirus (which scans before shutdown on most) these are a couple i have found that cause this .. im sure theres more .. good luck!

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[Sparky625]

Win98 tends to do that when you have mapped network drives, but it can do it other times too. Check your System.cpl for conflicts, that'd increase the probability. Try the shutdown supplement, and if that doesn't work, try shutting down to DOS instead. That's usually the last resort, but it works. http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smilies/cwm11.gif

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[This message has been edited by Sparky625 (edited January 20, 2001).]

[Tushar]

That's true. I tried the Win 98SE shutdown supplement. But to no vain. I know it has been updated recently, so I downloaded it again.

I tried shutting down to DOS, but there it didn't misbehave.

I want to try forcible DLL unloading and shutdown using the rundll SHExitwindoes route. Would it help ?