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Shutdown Problems Solved in Seconds

Simply cutting the power to your PC will lead to, at best, loss of data in the documents that you are working on, or at worst, a serious system crash that prevents you from restarting your PC. Thats why Microsoft provide options on the Start menu to cleanly shut down your computer, a process which saves all open documents, and then closes the running Windows components one by one. However, if you have followed the correct shutdown procedure, it can be incredibly annoying when your PC hangs on the Windows logout screen and nothing happens. Should you just power off and risk losing important data? You may think its your only option, until you read this article, where we show you how to fix the most annoying problems that lead to shutdown errors. Your PC will be back to normal in no time, and you will have avoided the prospect of serious system crashes and severe data loss.

Category: Troubleshooting
Issue: 2010 Issue 3 May/June
Operating Systems: XP
Article Reference: S33