No joy Friday night despite the reinstall.
wife insisted I went out for a beer or two last night and despite my protestations she dragged me kicking and cussing out of the door.....................
Right, now, having set up the desktop with me as administrator and the brat pack as users windows wont shut down properly. It go's through the motions but stops at the 'windows is shutting down' screen and hangs.
Have to switch off at the tower, thing is having done so and then restarted it boots fine with no disc checking or anything, just boots normally.
A friend advises it may be a new 500Gb external HD my son bought and installed, he advises the externnal drive shouldn' be left on/connected as its simply a m,ass storage device and the pc wont know how to shut it down which keeps i running.
Bit late tonight to go through it but d/l'd the instructions and will give it a go tomorrow.
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