Error on Windows ME shutdown or restart

To anyone who may be able to help, I have a Sony Vaio desktop PC. CPU
= Pentium II 333 MHz, 640K System RAM, 63M Extended RAM, 4X DVD Rom,
4.75 GB Hard Drive, normal 2 button PS2 mouse, normal keyboard, and a
plug and play monitor. I'm running Windows Me. Whenever I shut down or
restart my PC I get a blue screen that reads : ' An error has occured.
To continue: Press Enter to return to Windows, or
Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart your computer. If you do this, yoou will
lose any unsaved information in all open applications.
File Name: VWIN32(05) + 000012D0 Error: 0E : 0028 : C02A44A8
Press any key to continue'
When I press Enter I get just the wallpaper with no Icons and in a
little while the screen goes black with a blinking cursor at the top.
No activity on the HDD LED. No 'It is now safe to turn off your
computer' screen either. After turning the power off and restarting
the PC, Scandisk comes up and says it's running due to improper
shutdown. If I let Scandisk run, it takes between 30 and 45 minutes to
complete because it keeps restarting itself. So usually I click
'cancel' to get the PC to start sooner. Also when the PC starts the
'Connect To' window keeps popping up. I'd like to keep that from
happening also. I've looked in the registry under all of the 'Run',
'RunOnce', 'RunServices' & 'RunServicesOnce' in HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and HKEY_USERS and haven't seen anything that
would cause the 'Connect To' window to pop-up. Also my 'Start-up'
folder under the 'Start' menu is empty. I don't know what could be
causing either of these problems, but I'd like to get them fixed. I've
tried reloading WindowsMe but it did no good. When I go online to
Windows Update, I am unable to download anything because it says there
are actions waiting to be performed and I must restart my PC to finish
the installations, but as I said before, when I try to restart I get
the error ...... Please help .... Thank you in advance for any
suggestions that may be offered to correct these problems ............

A little more info ......... If I go into System Properties, click
Performance tab, click File System button, then in File System
Properties, click Troubleshooting tab and disable everything except
'Disable new file sharing and locking semantics', which is the top
one, it shuts down OK. I've tried enabling each one of the ones I
disabled one at a time and the PC comes up with the shut down error on
each ....... I'd really like to fix this, I don't want to have to wipe
the drive and start all over ..........

I had this posted in another newsgroup and these are the replies I got
and the things I've already tried

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 03:33:11 -0000, docmill
wrote:

Frank wrote in
:

To anyone who may be able to help,

http://www.acelogix.com/
Download the Registry Tune up utlilty. Better yet is the the whole
Utilities. It's one of the few I have seen that will keep ME from crashing
after adding programs and hardware.

And it would be a good idea to run hijack this. Wintools can be a bitch.


I downloaded the Registry Tune program from the site you have listed.
I installed and ran it. It found errors and corrected them, but I've
still got the same problem .....


On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:20:06 GMT, Vale of Belvoir drinker
wrote:

I have used ME for about 18 months on a pretty basic computer - 400
MHz with 320 Mb RAM , and it has been fine.
But I always run Windows Washer and Diskeeper Lite after a day's work
and also occasionally run Reg Seeker and Hard Disk Scrubber ( when I
use the scrubber it seems to leave me with an extra 200 Mb HDD
memory!)
All except Windows Washer are freeware.And Diskeeper Lite is a much
better defrag tool than the Windows one - it can run in the background
and doesn't restart every time any program writes to the disk.
If these tools are used regularly there are very few problems booting
up or shutting down - say once every two/three months or so.


I downloaded, installed and ran all the programs you have listed
....... still the same problem


On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 20:50:44 GMT, Frank
wrote:

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:04:49 -0700, "Toolman Tim"
wrote:

| On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 22:32:57 -0700, "David M. Cummings"
| wrote:
|
| Try to renew your Master Boot Record. Under Start, Run, type
| MBR/renew and see if that helps
|
|
| I tried typing MBR/renew in the Run dialog box and clicked OK, I got
| an error window saying "Windows cannot find 'MBR/renew'. You may have
| typed the name incorrectly in the Run dialog, or another open program
| cannot find a system file. To search for a file, click the Start
| button, and then click search"

There is no executable MBR (mbr.exe, mbr.com, etc.) in ME. In Win32 OS, MBR
was a function of FDISK. You might try this instead: fdisk /mbr

BUT before you do, since I didn't read about what problems you are having,
or why the topic of the MBR came up, PLEASE read about it at Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

or http://makeashorterlink.com/?L19024956


OK, I used the fdisk /mbr ...... It worked,... kind of ....... I can
'Shutdown' without the error, but if I switch the dialog box to
'Restart' I still get the error ......... ????


Sorry .... disregard ..... The 'Shutdown' only worked once and now
the problem's back on both ............