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    Question No shut down in XP only reboots!

    I am currently working on this machine that dosen't shut down, only reboots.
    The customer only had the machine for a week after a fresh install of Windows XP Home edition. The machine was tested and released from the shop in fine working order after the install with all of the latest drivers, and firmware for all of the components that were available.
    Unfortunately the customer dose not know which software was installed after he started having the problems with the shutdown.
    I disabled all of the items in the startup under msconfig, but this one line allways comes back checked:
    dumprep o-K %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0-K

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

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    dumprep o-K %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0-K

    I know what that is ...
    Windows Error Reporting Dump Reporting Tool. Found on Windows XP/2003. It shows as a startup item whose execution line usually reads as "KernelFaultCheck" %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 –k. DUMPREP creates memory dump reports that you can send to Microsoft if you answer "Yes" when prompted to send such reports. In our experience this entry only shows up for the first time after your PC has experienced a Windows XP "dump" crash, or an Office XP or Internet Explorer 6 crash where you were prompted about sending the crash results to Microsoft.

    Recommendation :
    It is our experience that having Error Reporting set to ON only causes more crashes. The mind boggles at this : in both Netscape and Internet Explorer our experience shows that if you turn error reporting ON, you will crash often in either browser, if not sometimes always !! You’ve guessed it, avoid Error Reporting like the plague. In both Windows XP and Windows 2003 turn it OFF by opening the SYSTEM icon in the Control Panel, choosing the ADVANCED tab, and then clicking on Error Reporting.
    That was the best I got, but from memory I'm fairly sure when its as you've got it that its fired by bootvis

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