Windows XP shutdown error

Is there any recent applications you may of installed. What antivirus s/w are you using, Norton perhaps?

Have a look at event viewer and check the logs. That might give some indication on what its complaining about,

Might be worth doing a spyware check, and maybe run hijack this and post the log here. You could have a dodgy program trying to run but your security s/w might be stopping it.

Check the application event log (control panel->administrative tools->event log) this should tell us which DLL is causing the problem. once identified, open services.msc and set that particular service to disabled and restart the computer. This usually happens when you have a program that integrates into the explorer shell, such as adobe update manager, and then fails to run. From nidhi's post, hijack this would be an excellent way of searching for the offending dll.

I find this app very useful http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml you can see what starts up and start disabling some of the useless crap it maybe one of these programs causing your problem.

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