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Is your PC HAL set as ACPI Compatible? If not, the machine won't power itself off. To check if you are using ACPI compatible HAL (hardware abstraction layer, fire up Device manager, and check under 'Computer' (usually the top entry). It will say something like 'Advanced Configuration and...

Al coputers with a NIC will have this address it's a loopback, useful if you have a network problem in that you can ping 127.0.0.1, if no reply then the problem is with the local machine.

Almost definately a virus, I would suggest using the McAfee AVERT Stinger (search for AVERT Stinger).

What code is the BSOD reporting?

tsshutdn.exe isn't on my system - I think it might because because terminal services isn't installed.

Try the Network Associates AVERT Stinger, http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ - that detects and removes all variants of the Lovegate virus and it's free. Mark

Thanks for that bcastner. However tsshutdn.exe isn't in the \system32 dir. I think Terminal Server must be an additional component which hasn't been installed on the machines? You input is appreciated thanks for your effort.

I think tsshutdn is for closing terminal Server sessions, and users need admin level privledges to run it.

Isn't TSSHUTDN used for closing down Terminal Server sessions? Also users need to be members of the administrators group to run this command (although that can most likely be worked around).

Thanks for that bcaster. Unfortunatley I'm guessing that forces a power off after at 20 second delay, which won't solve the problem - the users at the moment wait two minutes and then power off manually by holding down power for 5 seconds. This causes problems with corrupt files etc which in...

One thing I would suggest. Boot from the 2000 CD, select Recovery Console. From the recovery console type ListSVC to see what services are currently running - see if msblast.exe is running. If it is, type disable msblast.exe or whatever the msblast service calls itself. Then navigate to...

Guys, I'm a network administrator for a 45 machine network which runs NT4 SP6 Server and Windows 2000 Pro/XP Pro workstations. Recently a number of machines have developed problems during shutdown. More specifically, when logging off, the PC hangs on Closing network Connections and will not...