There are several other shutdown problems, but this seems to be the major one.” I updated mine (Compaq FX500 Monitor Driver), and my machine shuts down like Microsoft tells you Windows 98 is supposed to work.”ĭennis Montgomery, technology consultant, wrote: “If you are using Windows 98SE and you are running McAfee or Norton antivirus programs, be sure you disable Scan Floppy Disks On Shutdown. George Schleicher recommends getting the Windows 98 Second Edition Shutdown Supplement from Microsoft.ĭavetaxman wrote: “Update your video driver. Thanks to TechRepublic’s Ed Engelking for helping whittle down the list from the nearly 600 solutions we received. Windows 98 is a pretty stable operating system, but no two IT departments configure their machines exactly the same way, and solutions that work in some shops won’t work in other ones. This quiz is one for which there is no single correct solution. What in the world could be causing the machines to hang and not shut down completely? Here’s the situation Marie described: “How do you solve the Windows 98 shutdown problem? We have several computers that will not shut down or restart-they just sit on the shutdown screen.”
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