Shutdown/Restart must be executed 2wice

[ennma]

Hello,
I am trying to figure out what is acctually causing this problem,
every time I try to shutdown/restart windows xp (sp2 + all current updates), I have to do it twice, as if the 1st execution got aborted.

workarounds :
1.) close all process that belongs to me
2.) initiate shutdown/restart.

I also have tried msconfig approach, as to minimize all the startup
programs & services.

but still no luck, I still have to perform the shutdown/restart seq 2 times.

have any of you experience this?
if you have what was the offending process, and how do I resolve this issue.

thank you

ennma

[ryengineer]

Please have a look at these threads:

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[ennma]

Yeah I have done that investigation, I had hoped somebody's experience can pin point the problem.
Thanks

ennma