For what's worth, this has happened to me when windows is doing its thing with an update. It seems to want to do this just when you think you are closing down and it appears to hang for ages as if something is wrong. I found the cure was to go into the windows update site and make sure I had downloaded the current critical updates and having done the necessary I can shutdown normally. Hope that is not too obscure, it is only my suggestion. Kind Regards David Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petrina Delves" <aunk99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "access UK" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 6:24 PM Subject: [access-uk] Computer not shutting down. Hi all, This doesn't happen very often, but occasionally when I go to shut down my Computer, nothing happens. So I end up either pressing the reset button, and then going through the shut down again, or just pressing the off button, and holding it in for a few minutes. So can anyone tell me what might be the possible causes of this problem?. All the best Petrina, Southampton UK ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq