Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/14744/ 2009-11-23T11:59:34-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/14744/ /images/halogo.gif text/html 2003-11-01T04:40:35-05:00 dual3gigs http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/14744/#71545 hey will,,,maybe just before you go to shut down,,press ctl alt and delete,,,when the task manager pops up,just see what processes are running at that time,,it almost sounds like you have a whole crap load running.just for curiousities sake. text/html 2003-10-30T08:34:32-05:00 Shadow_Ops_Airman1 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/14744/#71009 easy way out is to reformat but back up data to a CD R first. text/html 2003-10-30T05:52:49-05:00 Will Nguyen http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/14744/#0 I have a laptop running window Xp pro on it and the problem that I have is that whenever I want to shut down my laptop, I have to "turn it off" twice (Start-Turn Off Computer-Turn Off) before it will start its shut down sequence. Yes I did give it time on the first try for it to turn off but it just won't. Gotta do it another time before it will turn off. Any help??/ thanks alot.