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Old April 20th, 2002 Top | #1
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Can anyone help here? no matter what i do, xp refuses to soft restart or shutdown, i have to hit the reset button or turn it off. only been happening a couple of days, i cant work out why and its driving me MAD!
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Open a command window and type in 'sfc /scannow.' This will check for any damaged system files. Other then that I'm not sure what to suggest besides a repair or clean installation.
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Old April 21st, 2002 Top | #3
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funnily enough i thought of that straight after posting this, and by a miracle it worked! Thanks for the reply anyway
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