Hangs when shutting down at a blank screen before the shut down screen

[firsthart]

When shutting down my Dell Inspiron 7500 with windows 98, it started hanging at a blank screen right before the shut down screen. If I shut down right after it boots, it will shut down correctly. It appears that after starting any program, it hangs when shutting down.

 

[Sensibilium]

Try closing down any background programs that may be running before shutting down and see if that helps.<br><br>If it does, kill each program individually and try rebooting until you find the culprit.<br><br>I have a program called 'WorkGroupMail' (an excellent MailServer for Win98 - <A HREF="

http://www.workgroupmail.com"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.workgroupmail.com</A>),

and it's background process 'Wmc' sometimes makes my system hang, so I always make sure I kill it before shutting down. <p>ahdkaw<br><a href=mailto:ahdkaw@sensibilium.com>ahdkaw@sensibilium.com</a><br><a href=

http://sensibilium.com/>Sensibilium</a><br>'If

you do visit my sites - be warned! You must be of a discordian nature...'

 

[krajci]

Are you running McAfee's Virusscan?&nbsp;&nbsp;I have been having an issue with a toshiba laptop also running Windows 98 SE.&nbsp;&nbsp;I removed McAfee's an it now has no issues whatsoever.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now I just need to figure out what I can do for virus protection.

 

[Karl Blessing]

Use Norton, or AvP. They're usally the best ones, even tho they cost money, Mcaffee I think is free, but they're one of the worst ones, no matter how many viruses they say they can detect. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

http://kb244.8m.com>

</a><br>Experienced in , or have messed with : VC++, Borland C++ Builder, VJ++6(starting),VB-Dos, VB1 thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, Borland C++ 3(DOS), Borland C++ 4.5, HTML,Visual InterDev 6, ASP(WebProgramming), QBasic(least i didnt start with COBOL)

 

[firsthart]

Thank all of you for your help. I used the old divide and conquer method of deciding which programs to remove from memory before shutting down. I found that a program call Attune (which automates the process of obtaining program updates) was still trying to process. I removed it, rebooted, then shut down. It shut down correct. Then I reinstalled Attune and it still shuts down correct. I think one of the update threads get corrupted. It is now working correctly.<br><br>Thank you for all your help.