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Thanks....I did try the shutdown command with the listed delimiters too, but nothing happens. I'll look into this UPHclean too...thanks. I'd like to get to the root cause of what this "sample" application is that hangs....not just a work around. Although, that's certainly better than nothing.

Hi bcaster....I don't why this is the case, but "shutdown" does not appear to do anything at all. It does not shut down the PC. As you said, I unzipped to winnt\system and tried your shutdown command from both Start>Run and also from a command prompt. It doesn't seem to do anything at all...

Thanks Bcastner, and I understand your point, but I don't really know where to proceed from here. As I said, I tried the items in FAQ608-4650 but this hanging application still seems to show up. I'm glad to try anything else that might be on the right track...if you think of anything, please...

Thanks for the suggestion of trying the CWshredder and HiJack This, etc. steps. CWshredder found nothing and said my system was "completely clean". HiJack This of course found all kinds of stuff. I searched the .log file for the word "sample" (the app that is hanging), but no sign of that...

Thanks for the suggestion of trying Task Manager, Jim. Unfortunately, I don't see anything named Sample or anything like that. I also have done a search for "sample.*" on the hard drive, and it comes up with a few things, but the only thing that even looks suspect is the (sample.mov &...

Hello, my W2K Prof. op system hangs consistently when trying to Shutdown, giving me a dialog box saying that it is trying to close "Sample". I have no idea what this is. Any idea what it may be, or how I should investigate and eliminate this hanging problem? thanks very much. John

Hi, does anyone know if there is an easy way to backup only the latest emails in Express 6.0? Like, if I want only the last 3 mos of emails? It appears that when you look at the files in the folder where all the messages are located, they all have the same date on them, instead of...

Thanks for the clarification and help to understand. That non-breaking space idea makes sense, but I was unaware. Yes, I had "Bora" in the dictionary, so it is accepted just fine, and now Spellcheck just glides right by Bora Bora :) Thanks again guys!

Dcompto....that worked great!! Thanks for the great idea. I had looked into the Auto Correct idea, but I did not (and really still do not) understand what a "required space" is?? I simply tried replacing Bora Bora with Bora Bora (no required space), but that didn't work. Anyway, using the...

Hi, I need to have the word "Bora Bora" always ignored (accepted) by Microsoft Word and other Office applications. It always catches the 2nd Bora as a "duplicated word" and flags it during a spellcheck. Anyone know of a way to prevent this? I've tried adding Bora, Bora Bora, "Bora Bora" and...

Hello BlueHorizon....this is a different question, but related to this thread. I'm trying to copy a Word 2002 document that has several form fields in it, and place the formatted results into Excel...this worked fine with earlier Word. The drop-down selected values are NOT copying when I do...