Looking for a forced shutdown program for Win98

[jacatone]

Have this old HP Win98 machine that doesn't shut off after clicking the Start/Turn of Computer button. Just goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. I seem to recall there was a patch of something for this problem. Anyway, does anyone know of a good forced shutdown program that would do the job? Thanks.

[Panama Red]

Just go to Windows Update and run all the updates for 98. (Hopefully you're using SE) The shutdown problem was corrected with updates.

[edfair]

Some were corrected. But some that were corrected come back weeks later.

Try a new icon on the desktop. program=
drive:\windows\rundll.exe user exitwindows

start in drive:\windows

[jacatone]

Sorry Edfair, what exactly do I do? Thanks.

[whubbard]

Or make a batch file to shutdown:

1) Open Notepad
2) Type: shutdown /s /f
3) Save as a .bat instead of a .txt

You now have a program that will shutdown your computer.

[edfair]

create a new icon on the desktop named shutdown

program is c:\windows\rundll user exitwindows

start in c:\windows

save it

click on it when you want to shut down.