?? Why won't my 'puter shut down

[mechsympathy]

At a time when lots of people are having problems with their computers shutting down regularly, i have the opposite trouble.

It will go through the exiting screens until it says "Windows is shutting down" and then it stops. Its running XP (a recent change when the hard drive went). There are/have been no error messages.

Can anyone help??

[mechsympathy]

Patch?? As in puncture repair I assume?

Thanks for the advice.

Oddly I never had any problems with windows ME.