Little secret I learned from the repair business I was in before my current
position that might be of additional help to address the shutdown problems
in Win98SE. I saw the problem hundreds of times minimum.
First thing to check is the device manager (If anyone is unfamiliar with the
quick way, right click on "My Computer" and click properties and then device
manager tab). Be sure there are no yellow exclamation marks. I find
typically there was one for power management because we typically disabled
it in the bios. If that is the case just remove it and it will be fine. If
there are others, you will have to fix the hardware or driver problems to
get things straight. When the device manager is clean, apply the windows 98
shutdown patch. It should start working then. If not, try applying the
patch again. That is right, apply the same patch again. The shutdown patch
can be applied many times and needs to be applied after any changes to the
registry that effects the shutdown process for Win98SE. I have added the
patch to my "updates" directory on the server so I can apply it without the
download every time. I found with the systems I worked on, I was able to
fix the shutdown issues of Win98SE in at least 99% of the computers
following the procedure set out above.
The key to remember is "THE WINDOWS 98 SE SHUTDOWN PATCH MAY NEED TO BE
INSTALLED EVERY TIME SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE IS INSTALLED".
Good luck to all still fighting with Windows 98 SE.
Aaron Hoyt
System Administrator
Design Standards Corp.
PO Box 1620
Charlestown, NH 03603
Tel 603-826-7744
<mailto:Aaron@...>
Rick Spriggle wrote:
position that might be of additional help to address the shutdown problems
in Win98SE. I saw the problem hundreds of times minimum.
First thing to check is the device manager (If anyone is unfamiliar with the
quick way, right click on "My Computer" and click properties and then device
manager tab). Be sure there are no yellow exclamation marks. I find
typically there was one for power management because we typically disabled
it in the bios. If that is the case just remove it and it will be fine. If
there are others, you will have to fix the hardware or driver problems to
get things straight. When the device manager is clean, apply the windows 98
shutdown patch. It should start working then. If not, try applying the
patch again. That is right, apply the same patch again. The shutdown patch
can be applied many times and needs to be applied after any changes to the
registry that effects the shutdown process for Win98SE. I have added the
patch to my "updates" directory on the server so I can apply it without the
download every time. I found with the systems I worked on, I was able to
fix the shutdown issues of Win98SE in at least 99% of the computers
following the procedure set out above.
The key to remember is "THE WINDOWS 98 SE SHUTDOWN PATCH MAY NEED TO BE
INSTALLED EVERY TIME SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE IS INSTALLED".
Good luck to all still fighting with Windows 98 SE.
Aaron Hoyt
System Administrator
Design Standards Corp.
PO Box 1620
Charlestown, NH 03603
Tel 603-826-7744
<mailto:Aaron@...>
Rick Spriggle wrote:
>
> Can anybody tell me how to disable the fast shut down feature in
> Windows 98
> Second Edition? I have a number of PCs that won't shut down properly,
> even
> with the Microsoft patch installed. I remember this being discussed
> on the
> group several months ago.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick