Hi,
Problem #1 seems to work fine in RTM, so does #2.
On #2, interference with the shutdown sequence of events is very common, but
it's not a Windows bug. This behavior happens because of, but is not limited
to:
- misconfigured hardware timing
- misconfigured power management
- spyware, viruses, and other malware
- poorly written software that doesn't terminate
- old TSR's that don't know when to quit
- poorly written device drivers
- incorrect BIOS power settings
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
"Roof Fiddler" <fiddler@roof.com> wrote in message
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> Running RC2, I press ctrl-alt-delete. Nothing happens for about a minute,
> then the screen goes black and a dialog box pops up:
> Title: "Logon process has failed to create the security options dialog."
> Icon: circled red X.
> Message: "Failure - Security Options"
> Button: "OK"
>
> I press the OK button.
>
> Lather, rinse, repeat.
>
> Oh yes, this definitely looks like release candidate software to me.
>
> So I choose shutdown from the start menu. The taskbar disappears after
> about a minute. My desktop disappears a couple minutes later, leaving a
> black screen with a cursor.
> Nothing else happens.
> Several minutes later I hit the reset switch.
> This bug has been in Windows since at least Windows 95. Isn't eleven years
> enough time to fix one bug?
> Tell me Mr. BG, I know you have difficulties with precision timing for
> your software releases, but can you at least give me an approximation, do
> you plan to endow your flagship software with the ability to actually SHUT
> THE F#@! DOWN before or after the second coming of Christ?
>