Vista won't let me shutdown

[TomJBraun]

Does anyone have any idea why since I installed vista, I can't shutdown or restart my pc? If I want to shut it down, I got to hold the power button down for 5 seconds or restart i have to press reset. When I tell it to shutdown or restart, it does close it down, but it just hangs on a blank screen and give it about 10 minutes from telling it to shutdown, it restarts.

Secondly, my media player flickers like crazy? Could that be related to the new Nvidia drivers? I have 2 7800 GTs in SLI with the latest drivers.

 

[btcomm1]

Try using msconfig to disable all non ms services and startup items. Then see if you can shut down, it could be that something is loaded in the background that isn't responding when you go to shut down.