>Are you running Outlook by any chance? And not shutting it down before shutdown? There are some issues with the Vista Shutdown manager where it asks for an application to shut down and the app doesn't shut down it just sits and waits and waits and never shuts down. This isn't really a Vista problem but a badly behaved app problem...

Rick,

I completely disagree with you. It is a Vista (and XP et all) problem, which I very much dislike. If I ask the OS to shutdown, the darn OS should shutdown, if an application is not responding, then kill the damn application, hanging up does not solve anything at all! Who the f*** is in control, the applications or the OS? This is one of my pet-peeves with Windows, so many times I shut it down but not wait only to find the next day Windows still waiting for me to answer the "App XXX is not responding, do you want kill it"? very badly parraphrased question. OF COURSE I want to kill it, otherwise I wouldn't be shutting down the OS, would I? Couple this with the updates, where I set it up (at home, at work is all set up by policies) to download and ask me to install, then after installing I get a dialog "Updates installed, Reboot or Reboot Later?" and if I say later I got the freaking pop up question every freaking 5 minutes.... arghhh!! But even worst is when it completely ignores my setting and from time to time it just installs and REBOOTS my computer after some "Very important" update, WHO THE F*** is the OS to decide for me when to reboot?? (This is done while I am not at the computer, probably at night, I only get a notification when I re-log into windows saying that windows automatically rebooted) I know there must be some registry setting somewhere to avoid this stupid behaviour, but I am certain it should never be the default! (By the way, the last 3 times this happened it convenientely set up IE as my default internet browser, ignoring that Firefox is mine)


Sorry for the rant.