I've make an report, but it was not solved... i'm having a problem with windows 7 shut down operation. when I select shut down or restart, I go through the proper steps to shut down and it freezes in "shutting down". I then have to hold the power button down for a few seconds to shut down. When I turn the pc back on, it says windows was not shut down properly. By thr way, I'm using avira personal antivirus en-64. I' ve tried to uninstall it, but it didn't work, the problem remains. Please help. thanks

Do you have your Power Options to Hibernate when using the shutdown line in start menu?Do you have the on/off switch set up to Hibernate or Shutdown?GA P35 DQ6 Mb, Intel Wolfdale 8600 3.33Ghz C2D CPU., 4x2Gb Mushkin DDR2 1066 PC2 8500 Ascents Memory Mods., PNY-nVidia GE Force 8800 GTS (640MB), 4-Western Digital Caviar SATA(2) HDD's (internal), 1 EIDE-USB External; Hauppauge PVR 1600 TV tuner, Dual Monitor: (1) Standard up top, (1) WideScreen below; Altec Lansign Speakers...

I've make an report, but it was not solved... i'm having a problem with windows 7 shut down operation. when I select shut down or restart, I go through the proper steps to shut down and it freezes in "shutting down". I then have to hold the power button down for a few seconds to shut down. When I turn the pc back on, it says windows was not shut down properly. By thr way, I'm using avira personal antivirus en-64. I' ve tried to uninstall it, but it didn't work, the problem remains. Please help. thanks You might have some program that wants the machine to stay running. Some malware are coded that way. Check you disk for malware programs. Vote if helpful, I am running for Office (joke), also mark questions answered. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. My server's disk finally croaked, I am out of work, I need to get a new server as the old IBM is past its prime.

Hi, no, I havent power options to hibernate, my on/off switch is configured to shut down. but even with this configs, the pc cannot shut down properly. thanks

Hi, Are you still having the same problem? As I have the same thing happening. I click on the shutdown button and everything seems normal, then the monitor goes off, but you can still hear the fans blowing and the PC is still on. Someone please help! Thank you.

hi, no, I solve the problem. it was not a software problem. I have one usb pci card, and that was having some conflit with win7. I removed it an than the problem was solved.

I've had this problem thru 5 installs on this system. It appears to be some Windows 7 service which doesn't shut itself down like it should. I was told by so-called experts it was a driver,but after disabling all the drivers I can, it appears to be one or more services. This is not to say that in some cases it isn't a driver, but for me don't think so.

There is always the "reset" button, When in doubt, reset cures all.Vote if helpful, I am running for Office (joke), also mark questions answered. IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the antique IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site. My server's disk finally croaked, I am out of work, I need to get a new server as the old IBM is past its prime.

In my case, I have hibernate available. However it freezes when it comes from hibernation everytime. I can't no longer use hibernation... any ideas?

Machine type, make model etc.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Whatever I need a new web server, the old IBM 300GL has a 137GB disk limit, for my chess site as the hard disk finally bit the dust. The Windows box is a RaidMax Smilodon chassis, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM motherboard, AMD 4200+ 65W CPU, 2GB RAM, ATI x600, over 1TB storage, Windows 7 RC.

I dont know the exact solution for this.But this might be tricky solution for you:Now, whenever you want to shutdown your PC try following command on RUN or on command promptshutdown -f -s -t 03Here f = forcefully shutdown (quicker shutdown)you can use r for restart and s for shutdown and t is time in secondsHope you can get this tricky solution

that sounds about right i have had the same issue and it either hangs in shut down mode, blue screens or turns black and does nothing else, upon starting windows again i get the message 'windows has recovered from an unexpected shut down' (the irony that it was shutting down for half an hour!) Ill give this fix a go, would any one know how i would get the usb/firewire pci card ive got to work if it is the case or do i just have to replace the part or drivers, Ive got a new win7 build on the way