What is wrong with bill gates? This *^%# of ^&* hangs up when I attempt to turn it off! I just don’t understand why is has to be so goddam hard to turn an op[erating system off! You tell it that you want to shut down…you click “yes” , then it asks you AGAIN…'do you want to shut down". Dammit yes! Then, it hangs up, and I have to reboot! Half the time, I just get frustrated an turn the damn power off! Are you listening Bill gates? I just want to turn MY computer OFF!
- You’re not waiting long enough for it to finish shutting down all the files and programs and other “stuff” that it has open. It needs time to put away its toys, so to speak. When you tell it “shut down”, it needs to put away things like your ISP connection, Windows Media Player, Outlook Express, all that stuff that lives down in your tray–it all has to be closed down and put away, exactly the way a kid puts away all the blocks and Legos and Matchbox cars that are on the floor.
So it seems like it’s hung up, but really it’s just processing. Look at your hard drive while it’s “hung up” and I bet you’ll see the orange light flashing periodically–this means the hard drive is “working”.
So, be patient–and don’t reboot. Go away and do something else for five minutes by the clock, and if it’s still hung up when you get back, then reboot. I’m assuming that by “reboot” you mean “turn the power off and then on again”? This is not good for your computer to do this, as it only confuses it. It’s rather a violent thing to do to your computer, as it means that sometimes little pieces of files get lost or corrupted, and it can ultimately leave you worse off than you were before.
- The reason it prompts you twice for the actual shutdown is actually a safety procedure–it’s to keep you from accidentally shutting down your computer with a single absentminded click, when you’ve suffered one of those brain farts that hit all of us periodically, and you’ve clicked on “Shut Down” when you didn’t mean to. It prompts you, “Are you sure?” and then you can tell it, “Feh, no…”
Or what do you mean by “reboot”? What are you doing to your computer when it hangs up upon Shutdown? Do you mean you’re doing Control-Alt-Delete? But that just signals a Restart, which countermands the Shutdown command you just told it, so it has to go back to Square One and start over with shutdown procedures, only this time aiming towards a Restart. Which takes even longer, and is even more likely to result in a freezeup.
Just wait a little longer for the shutdown to finish processing. 
Thats a big negative. Win ME is notorious for not shutting down when told to. In fact if you go to MS website I think there is a patch or something for that exact problem.
Here’s a link
Windows ME is a pile of festering filth that was made by collecting the shit from the toilets up at Microsoft HQ, placed into a box, and sold to an unsuspecting public. They took all the worse qualities of Win98, made the entire program ten times bigger (thusly creating ten times more stuff waiting to get corrupted), and called it “Windows 2000 for home users”, while forgetting to add anything remotely similar to Windows 2000.
XP is the way to go, baby.
Well, I’ve got WinME and I don’t have that much trouble getting it to shut down–yes, I agree, it does tend to hang a bit, and chug along, but it does eventually shut down.
Why does everyone hate WinME? I’ve used it on multiple desktops and notebooks and had no more problems with it than Win 98SE. It’s really not all that bad and the minimum hardware requirements are way less than XP demands.
Re the shutdown issue there are multiple patches that will address this issue and there are numerous reasons why shutdown may hang. Make sure all your windows files are updated. You can use the “windows update” feature in your IE browser under the “Tools” tab at the top to automatically update the files.
So you enjoy paying Microsoft for the privilege of changing your hardware? You enjoy paying Microsoft for the privilege of running an OS you bought on more than one machine?
Pfft. Here’s a nickel, kid. Go buy yourself a real OS.
(I jumped from ME to Linux over those issues.)
Methinks the issue is often not the OS, but all the junk that computer makers install on your system before you get it. Often if you remove all that shit the OS is much more stable. I recently wiped my laptop clean and reinstalled ME on it, and it works great. The hardware is somewhat unreliable though… but that’s another matter.