As above really, its a dell pc running XP and aftrer 12 months or so it refuses to let me switch it off properly, instead i have to unplug it! anyone got any ideas??? -->Robbo
Have you tried, reformatting and reinstalling windows because i bet you are missing key registry components to shutting down and logging off
But for now to prevent any further data loss when you want to shut down go to run and type cmd -> shutdown -r ( to abort) type shut down -a hope this helps for the time being if this computer does not have a windos CD until you get one....