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Re: Windows Shutdown

• Posted by "Louis Puster" <Louis at cwshop.com> Oct 20, 2003
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One of my points was that if Steve Gibson (WIZMO) couldn't get Windows to
behave, nobody else could either.

By the way, an earlier post mentioned using the FORCE parameter when calling for
a shutdown.  Although sometimes necessary to overcome the Win98 shutdown problem,
I believe this can shut down programs before they are ready, before they have
written their buffers to the HD, resulting in data loss.  It helps to wait a
while after closing all applications before forcing a shutdown.

Louis.

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On 10/20/2003 at 8:01 AM Juergen Luethje wrote:

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>Louis wrote:
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>> The Windows shutdown process is very buggy.  It works differently from
>> one computer to the next.
>
>Yes ... Or at least differently from one Windows flavor to the next.
>
>> A small assembly language program that will shutdown, logoff, play
>> sounds, open and close a CDROM, an entertaining and educational
>> screensaver, and much more is called WIZMO and can be found at GRC.COM.
>
>I agree that WIZMO is a nice program, but even WIZMO does not reliably
>shut down all PCs.
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>> (This guy does EVERYTHING in assembly language, even his own Web
>> server and TCP/IP drivers.)
>>
>> Louis.
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>Regards,
>   Juergen