First post, by vorvek
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Hello friends. I've recently installed a bunch of network cards in my old PCs setting up a subnet for them to share files easily. While overall I'm very happy with the results, trying to shut down the W95 and W98 has become a nightmare, particularly the former.
Both computers will kind of "hang" showing the command cursor and never actually reach the "you can safely shut down your computer now". Well, the W98 will, sometimes. I know I can just switch them off at that point, and that the hard drive isn't really doing anything. However, Windows will complain during boot and run Scandisk. I remember that Windows XP had some sort of "timeout to kill every process" that you could enable through the registry that would allow you to shut down those zombie processes that otherwise take a minute to kill, and I was wondering if there's something similar for these earlier OSs. I understand it's somehow related to being connected to the network, but to be honest, back in the day I barely knew how to set up dial-up, and never set up LAN under W98, much less W95, so maybe I'm missing some option somewhere.
Any hints?
