Windows won't close down

[MorseLady]

I really prefer not to instal SP3 as the machine is running really well now and I don't want to rock the boat. I do not intend to do any further major tinkering unless it goes wrong again. I am also put off using anything Norton.

[NooNoo]

I really prefer not to instal SP3 as the machine is running really well now and I don't want to rock the boat. I do not intend to do any further major tinkering unless it goes wrong again. I am also put off using anything Norton.

Fair enough.

[t34b4g5]

Greetings.

Good to hear that you can now shutdown and keep it shutdown.

Also the 80 or so updates that you encountered was exactly what i was reffering to. Now i would suggest check the windows update site and see if there are anymore updates.

At this point in time i would suggest redownloading the sp3 and giving that another shot.
But i also agree with your "if it's not Broke don't fix" was of thinking.

It's nice to hear that we were able to throw around some ideas and get this problem fixed.