Vista Hangs on Shutdown

pmatthews05 · Jul 4, 2007, 12:45 PM

Can anyone help me. I own a HP laptop dv9299e, it came with Vista Premium on, but I upgraded it to Vista Ultimate.

When I go to shut down my machine, it says windows is shutting down and just sits there, showing me the little blue swirlly worm chassing it's own tail. It doesn't happen all the time, it seems to happen when I'm using the microsoft loopback adapter that i've installed.

I have recentently installed Virtual Server 2005 R2 on my laptop and have a Windows Server 2003 running inside my laptop as a virtual machine. Because I use wireless internet to get the VM to connect to the internet you need to use a loopback adapter that is Internet connection sharing on your wireless connection.

It seems after the VM has been switched on, any changes made to the loopback adapter such as editing the IP address (which you can do in vista) causes that part of the application get stuck.

Even if you don't make any changes to the loopback adapter, but have used it because of switching on a VM, after shutting down the VM, then shutting down Vista, Vista just hangs in shutdown.

Has anyone else encountered this? Has anyone fixed this?

WardenWolf · Jul 19, 2007, 07:09 AM

This is actually an old, old problem that just reared its ugly head again. When it does this, just turn it off. This problem has showed up in Windows 95, 98, and 2000 at various times. The only reason it didn't show up in XP was because they fixed it in 2000. Basically what happens is either a driver refuses to fully unload or the system neglects to give the kill signal to the computer. By the time it gets to this stage, however, it's already saved the registry and anything important.

Jul 4, 2007, 12:45 PM	#1
pmatthews05 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Vista Hangs on Shutdown Can anyone help me. I own a HP laptop dv9299e, it came with Vista Premium on, but I upgraded it to Vista Ultimate. When I go to shut down my machine, it says windows is shutting down and just sits there, showing me the little blue swirlly worm chassing it's own tail. It doesn't happen all the time, it seems to happen when I'm using the microsoft loopback adapter that i've installed. I have recentently installed Virtual Server 2005 R2 on my laptop and have a Windows Server 2003 running inside my laptop as a virtual machine. Because I use wireless internet to get the VM to connect to the internet you need to use a loopback adapter that is Internet connection sharing on your wireless connection. It seems after the VM has been switched on, any changes made to the loopback adapter such as editing the IP address (which you can do in vista) causes that part of the application get stuck. Even if you don't make any changes to the loopback adapter, but have used it because of switching on a VM, after shutting down the VM, then shutting down Vista, Vista just hangs in shutdown. Has anyone else encountered this? Has anyone fixed this?

Jul 19, 2007, 07:09 AM	#2
WardenWolf DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 43 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	This is actually an old, old problem that just reared its ugly head again. When it does this, just turn it off. This problem has showed up in Windows 95, 98, and 2000 at various times. The only reason it didn't show up in XP was because they fixed it in 2000. Basically what happens is either a driver refuses to fully unload or the system neglects to give the kill signal to the computer. By the time it gets to this stage, however, it's already saved the registry and anything important.