Another bad advice, like about the snake-oil programs for RAM freeing (in the
thread "Freeing-up Memory Without Re-booting?").

And even two bad advices.

"No harm done"? Hmm... It's very easy to destroy the file structure on the
HDDs in such case -- that's why Windows scans the drives after the improper
shutdown.

So your second advice "make sure you have scandisk set to not run after every
improper shutdown" does not allow Windows to solve the possible problems
immediately after they occur, and makes the things worse.

--
Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:45:48 GMT, Labrat wrote:

Steve Wade voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in
microsoft.public.win98.apps on Thu 22 Sep 2005 12:50:40p:


"Jon_Hildrum" wrote in message
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Try here
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/shutdown.htm

Thanks!

An excellent page and rather clearer than MS's example.

Pity then that I have already formatted and re-installed. :-+

I seem to have got into the habit of a fresh install once year.

Anyone think this is unnecessary?

Anyone think it is a good habit to get into?




If 98 won't shut down properly, just push the power button on the front
of your computer. No harm done. It's a common problem with 98 an 98SE.

Just make sure you have scandisk set to not run after every improper
shutdown.