SAFE TO TURN OFF COMPUTER????? NOT!!!!!

[68mustang]

I received a link to microsoft.com to try to solve this problem but what microsoft is saying is that, "Although Windows may seem to shut down correctly, ScanDisk may run the next time you start the computer". I belive this is just to keep scandisk from coming up. "When I click on start and then select shut down, my computer just shuts down. No message saying "Windows is now safe to turn off" It just shuts down hard. Then when I turn my computer back on it runs a systems check saying that windows wasn't shut down properly. (Because it wasn't)I went to start then run and typed msconfig and checked to see if "Disable fast shutdown" was checked and it was. I also went to C:\windows and checked for LOGO.SYS and LOGOW.SYS I know these are needed to receive the message that its safe to safe to shut down. I looked for those files on my Windows CD so I could try to reinstall them but couldn't locate them. I'm assuming they are in a cab file.

 

[Malakili]

I know that theres an update for Win ME that delays your machine shutting down for a couple of seconds. The idea behind it is to give the machine time to write any from memory to HDD. That could work in making sure that the machine has saved its settings and preventing it from running scandisk .

Malakili

 

[Kento]

"When I click on start and then select shut down, my computer just shuts down. No message saying "Windows is now safe to turn off" It just shuts down hard."

Mine does the same. It's normal.

The resolution in the article you mentioned will fix the problem of scandisk running even though you shut down properly. Try it, i've seen it work numerous times.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q273/0/17.ASP

 

[KeyTech]

this may help you....it wont solve the Start->Shut Down problem exactly but...
If you create a shortcut on your desktop, and when it asks you to browse to the file for the shortcut, copy and paste this in..
C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows

then when you double click on it, it should exit Windows properly and shutdown without going to Start->Shutdown. Jay~

My new Tae Kwon Do website is up and running!!

http://www.airport-tkd.com

~KeyTech

 

[smitee]

68mustang

Windows 98 and 95 handle the logo bitmap the same way. If a good Logo.sys exists, Windows uses it; if not, Windows extracts the default logo from Io.sys. (Never modify Io.sys!) Logo.sys must be a 320 by 400 pixel, 256-color Windows bitmap file. Windows stretches the image to 640 by 400 for display. Logo.sys resides in the boot drive's root directory or, if the drive is compressed, in the root directory of the host for the boot drive.

-- Neil J. Rubenking

http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2656879,00.html

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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q218/1/76.asp?id=Q218176&sd=GN&fr=0&ln=EN-US

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http://www.phish.marko.net/logo/

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Free Shutdown Screens

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