Windows Won't Shut Down on 1st Attempt

Everything New Technology 1823 This topic was started by lcohen999, 2003-03-15 17:53

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2003-03-15 18:53

Help!

For some reason when I try to shutdown/reboot my computer the first attempt won't let me, Windows actually aborts the shutdown!

In the help and support here is what I am getting:

Event Details
Event ID: 1073
Source: USER32
Symbolic Name: WARNING_EW_SHUTDOWN_CANCELLED
Message: The attempt by user %2 to restart/shutdown computer %1 failed

Explanation
This event is written when a user or application attempts, but fails, to restart or shut down the computer by using either the graphical user interface (GUI) or the shutdown command.

any thoughts on how to fix this??!!?!?!?! Thanks ;(

Power down hdd using Windows 2000 Server?

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iks

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#105914

2003-03-23 05:48

Hi

It happened for me too, when I was using Lavasoft's Ad-watch 3.0 (it came with Ad-aware 6.0) so I usually closed it before shutting down my computer....

Check your running processes in Task Manager and try to find out if something (some process) blocks your shutdown/restart procedure when it is terminated...

Good luck,
-Andrej

lcohen999

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#105915

2003-03-23 07:38

yup

that is exactly what it was

Adwatch killed the shutdown, took me a while to figure it out

thanks for the reply!