Error Shutting Down System

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Scott Hastings

I get an error when I shutdown my W2K Workstation SP4. it
says that wfet cannot end. I must end it manually.

I isolated processes in then task manager and if I end
updatestats.exe, then I can do a clean shutdown.

Any ideas what is causing this. What is updatestats.exe?

Thoughts?

Scott Hastings
 
Golly, I hope you don't talk to your kids like that.

I get it...Your Nick Burns!!! Your welcome!!!!!
 
Scott Hastings said:
Golly, I hope you don't talk to your kids like that.

I get it...Your Nick Burns!!! Your welcome!!!!!
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I got in a condescending tone because here I see a guy who goes through
all the work of killing processes to test when the shutdown process will
succeed only to quit when he finds the file without putting in the extra
little bit of effort to check where is the file and what version info
can be found out about it.

Because this file is not on my system, it helps to conclude that it is
not part of Windows itself. I have many gigs of other software
installed but didn't bother to list it all because the first request
(where it is and what version info says) would probably resolve what the
file was used for. But, if you're interested, I also have installed:
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Microsoft Office XP (with all available
updates), Visual Studio 6.0, Sybex Network+ certification tutorial and
simulation software, Quicken 2002 Home & Business, Acrobat Reader,
SmartFTP, PKZip, Norton Internet Security, Norton AntiVirus,
PartitionMagic, DriveImage, Backup Exec, Nero CD Burning Software, and
tons more. And with all of it, no such file is on my system. The path
and version info would probably help a great deal in determining "what
is it".

Other places or ways to discover what this file is for:

- Scan through the NT services to see if something comes close to what
this file is named. You can look at the properties of each NT service
to see what is path to the executable that gets loaded to run that
service.

- Use msconfig.exe or Mike Lin's Startup Control applet to see what
programs get loaded in the registry Run keys. msconfig.exe doesn't come
with Windows 2000 but you can use a copy from Windows XP which can be
downloaded; a Google search should find it (I think
http://www.thetechguide.com/ had it). Mike Lin's Startup Control applet
can also be found through a Google search; just search on "Mike Lin".

- Check your Startup groups (both for you and for All Users).

- Make a copy of the file and open it in notepad.exe or wordpad.exe to
see if you can find any text strings that might help identify who made
this file and what it is used for.

- A search at http://support.microsoft.com on "updatestat" only listed
the one article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;224587. So are
you running their SQL Server product?

- If the path and version info reveal nothing about the file, you might
want to run Adaware and SpyBot to see if you have some spyware
installed.
 
I really appreciate your help. I'll be the first to say
that I'm not the most technical tool in the shed. This
wfet error is all over the newsgroups. I saw the SQL
reference updatestats.exe in a search. I'm not running SQL.

The first thing I did was to run adaware and spy bot.

Based on your advise, I searched my computer for
updatestast.exe, and behold, there it was. Part of an
application call Statblaster. It's an app that compiles
fantacy baseball stats. My son's have never seen a pop up
that they could say no to.

Thanks for the help. I am a project mmanager/account
manager. I am an MCSE (almost a useless set of tests)
and am taking the CCNA exam tomorrow. I do very little
hands on work in my job. I'm just technical enough to be
dangerous. Maybe it immediately occured to you to take the
next step of searching for the file. It didn't occurr to
me. Now, thanks to you, I have other tools, like msconfig
(from XP), and other tools you mentioned to solve problems
like this moving forward.

Just one word of advise, you can can take it or leave it.

Be nice, always. You prosper from people that know less
than you. They can walk away feeing good or bad about
their encounter with you. I have managed many technical
people in projects. Many of these folks would be CIO's if
they could just recognize that someone with fewer skill as
an opporunity rather than feel the need to insult or
rebuke them.

Thank you very much for giving me the extra nudge to solve
this problem. I deleted the application. I figured my son'
don't do any fantacy baseball, and couldn't really think
of another way to solve it.

Thanks for the help!
 
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Naw, I like being a wannabe curmudgeon, hee, hee. Different tactics
work differently. Sometimes I give very detailed answers (and I'm known
for being verbose as you've already seen). Sometimes I will just give a
hint because then the other person has to do more work and will probably
remember the solution longer and perhaps help someone else that
encounters the same problem. And sometimes it is just too hard to
resist the "Aw, come on" response. That's like your bosom pal saying
something that lays him up for a perfect ridicule retort, and you just
cannot let it slide by.


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Fully Understand!! I threw a hangin' curve. I'm not sure I
would have respected you if you wouldn't knocked it out on
me!!

At any rate...Thanks for "guiding" me through the
problem!!
 
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