Windows won't close down

[MorseLady]

The download and installation of the 88 high priority updates took about half an hour with no problems or errors and has solved the shutdown problem which SP3 created which I think t34b4g5 said it might. When I shut down it stays shut down.

I will hold off FDISK for now and avoid SP3 as the computer is running fine now and as the saying goes "if it ain't broke don't fix it" but any more problems it's FDISK. I will now get what of the of the non priority updates I want.

I think I will avoid Norton altogether as it was NIS 2008 and PM8 which caused my original problems forcing me to do a clean install of XP. I have no need to create or alter partitions and there is plenty of good AV software.

Thanks for all your help and advice all