>I have a new laptop and have been slowly loading things on it. It's running Vista Business. This morning I hooked up my fingerprint reader, webcam, and external harddrive and installed the drivers for each. Then when I tried to shutdown the machine .. it's stuck. It's sitting there saying "Shutting down..." and it's been that way for over 30 minutes. I even tried to power it off .. wait a while .. then turn it back on and it said "Shutting Down..."
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>Help .. I'm dead in the water on that machine.

That same things was happening to my Dell Latitude a few weeks back running XP Pro. Ended up being a bad hard drive. Might not be Vista?