Possible virus

[quest577]

Hey....my PC just doesn't shut down.....I literally had to just shut it off manually and I know how that f's it up. When it is running it also tends to be EXTREMELY sluggish, i've got a suspicion that's it's a virus, does this sound familiar to anyone....and if so, does anybody have anysiggestions as to how to fix it?

Thanks :)

[BADFlSH]

Are you sure that all of your resources arn't getting used up? Next time it gets sluggish I would see what percentage of the system resources are free, you may just have some programs with memory leaks or something.

[Newbiee]

or it could be a combo of 2 things, windows settings are messed up for shutdown and mem leakage

[sbp]

Whats your system and OS quest577? How much ram do you have? Have you changed anything in your system lately? Windows as time goes on runs slower as it collects a lot of junk.

If your using win98se there's a patch on Micro$ofts site that takes care of this problem. If your using win98 disable fastshutdown. In run box type in msconfig. Click on adavanced button in lower right and disable {by checking off} Disable fast shutdown.