Windows is shuting down.........next day: "windows is shutting down"

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Have a look at these text and links... The first part is not for your problem, but if anybody has similar problems..

Note that these problems are discussed at length in Window Support forums, so most links come from there;

 POWERDOWN ISSUES
 "Powerdown issues" are quite distinctive from "shutdown issues." I define a shutdown problem as one wherein Windows doesn't make it at
least to the "OK to shut off your computer" screen. If Windows gets that
far, or farther, then it has shut down correctly. However, the computer
may not powerdown correctly after that. This is a different problem, and
I encourage people reporting these issues to make a clear distinction in
their labeling.

  When Windows XP won't powerdown automatically, the APM/NT Legacy Power
Node may not be enabled. To enable this, right-click on the My Computer
icon, click Properties | Hardware | Device Manager | View. Check the box
labeled "Show Hidden Devices." If it's available on your computer, there
will be a red X on the APM/NT Legacy Node. Try enabling it and see if
this resolves the powerdown problem (Tip from Terri Stratton). Or, to
check the other side of the APM/ACPI coin, open the Power Options applet
in Control Panel. If there is an APM tab, make sure the "Enable Advanced
Power Management Support" box is checked.

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  Quick idea here. I had several problems with shutting down XP and tried many things to cure it. Eventually, I got adaware and rant it. I had over 85 spyware items on my PC and removed them all. XP shuts down fine now. It seems that some of them don't shut down properly and hang the OS.

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The original poster wasn't talking about older PCs not being able to shut themselves down. This is a hang on shutdown, so the PC never gets to the stage of switching off or saying "it is safe to".

AFAIK, the links I provided also give tips on solving those. Like waccoon said, there's plenty of info to be found on the Window Forums. Or search on groups.google.com, keywords "Windows hangs on shut down" or something similar.

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my advice, use AMIGA OS like me or use another Proper os, sure it has downsides (like u need atm 10+ year old HW and we dont have a decent browser, but seriously it makes up for all the crap in the x86 world)

I wonder how true this would be when Amiga OS / Morph OS starts supporting the same amounts as Hardware as Windows does out of the box.. (That includes all mobo's and their revisions and every bit of hardware people can think of.. This is not intended as a flame towards you, I really love to see both of these OSes supporting more hardware)

Sure Windows is crap lots of times, but it does have it good points.