Not sure if any of you have this problem or not but I have for some time and, due to the fact I have been sick at home for the past three days have lots of time on my hands.  <img src="http://www.clanlod.net/ipb/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> <br /><br />When restarting or shutting down, the computer hangs on the &quot;Windows is shutting down&quot; screen. You then must manually power cycle the computer for a restart. <br /><br />I searched the the web and found and performed these operations which fixed the problem.<br /><br />The problem lies with a program in your msconfig start up. You can disable them in msconfig, but the following removes this entries entirely.<br /><br />Here is the thread wher the information came from. <a href="http://club.cdfreaks.com/f3/my-pc-gets-stuck-when-turning-off-restart-130497/" target="_blank">http://club.cdfreaks.com/f3/my-pc-gets-stu...restart-130497/</a><br /><br />Below is what I did and it solved my problem.<br /><br /><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The proper way to disable unwanted startup programs is to enter the Registry and navigate to:<br /><br />Start - Run - Regedit<br />Navigate to the following Registry key:<br /><br />HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE&#092;SOFTWARE&#092;Microsoft&#092;Windows&#092;CurrentVersion&#092;Run<br /><br />Here you can delete the start up entry and there will not be any unchecked boxes left in MSCONFIG as this change is a permanent change and not a &quot;Selective&quot; change.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->  <br /><br /><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Start - Run - Regedit<br />Navigate to the following Registry key:<br /><br />HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE&#092;SOFTWARE&#092;Microsoft&#092;Shared Tools&#092;MSConfig&#092;startupreg<br /><br />You can clean up MSCONFIG by deleting the appropriate entries here<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->