[elkrott]

VISTA Home Premium refuses to shut down have to manualy shut it down. It shows shutdown message and moving circle but never finishs shutting down.
Can anyone help me?

[vindicator2008]

reinstall that blessed thing. either a installed hitch or a virus. oh one more thing: back up your stuff

[elkrott]

In safe mode it shuts down.

[jmw3]

This has to be a driver issue. You could try booting into safe mode again & enable boot logging. This will create a log (ntbtlog.txt) of all drivers loaded at startup. Then it is a matter of a process of elimination to find the driver causing the problem.

[crjdriver]

The above is correct. It is almost always a driver problem when the shutdown hangs. If you have a number of usb devices, I would disconnect them all and give it a try. See if it shutsdown now. Reconnect one at a time and test. Generally mainstream drivers for sound, nic, video do not cause problems however there is always a chance that an internal piece of hw and or driver is causing the problem.

[Rich-M]

Did you add or install any new hardware or software recently...that is where you should be looking.

[elkrott]

My problem was caused by having Roxio and Nero 8 both installed. I deleted Roxio and reinstalled Nero 8. Now Vista is executing great. Many other small problems I was having also went away.

[crjdriver]

Yes, having both almost always causes a problem. Glad you got it working