Webuser Forums: Restart instead of shutdown

Hi There

I recently had an issue with my shutdown process, I have posted on the hijackthis section as I suspected malware but the experts there say I have no malware which is a relief!

Can anyone suggest possible causes?

Basically I chose shutdown and it restarts and a winlogon.exe error message pops up asking me to send to microsoft. If I choose to ignore the pc will repeat this process. If I choose to send microsoft the error message then all goes back to normal and I can shut down OK.

I am running XP inc all critical updates

Not sure if it is a coincidence but this seemed to start after I hooked up a new Lacie desktop drive and moved some files to it. But no critical files were moved, just old hardly used documents and the like.

The error seems to have stopped happening and hasn’t occurred in a few days now (It happened for 3 days in a row and then went away)

Any ideas what could have caused this? Could it have been the initial few days of the extra harddrive running as it does continue running after shutdown due to being powered separately?

The annoyance factor I can live with as you can get around it simply by allowing the error report to send but I just want to confirm what caused it so I can try and avoid any re-occurrence (I am blind so want the pc to run smoothly)

Thanks for any help anyone can offer

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