should u stay or should u go ?

magick

ever notice when ur rushing out the door and shutting off your computer (on xp) when u click turn off computer , u think that would be it right ?

only to come back to your house and discover "windows is waiting from a responce from you" or ending task......

i find myself now instead of rushing out the door but waiting there to make sure the computer actually shuts down lol

its one of the more annoying features in windows , if i click on turn off computer, think windows reguardless should end task/shut down the computer , hopfully they will have this in vista

Ruu_Old

I thought it normally closes down an application in a certain number of seconds, little progress bar thing. I find Trillian is the only program that is too stubborn to close down, everything else is fine.

the_syco

Do you have 10 seconds? Hold the "off" button that long, and Windows either does a fast shutdown (with no questions asked), or it just turns off:D

mr_disc

u could try this : http://quick-shutdown.shatran-software.qarchive.org/

TerrorFirmer

This happens to me the odd time, maybe once every dozen shutdowns. Hangs at ending "Soundmax" or something similar...

Heinrich

Set the power options to shut down the system

petes

I just have a shortcut on the desktop. When I am leaving work, double click and thats it. Only if I'm not downloading stuff though. I would usually leave it on in that case.