Strange weirdness at shutdown

[USCG Vet]

Hi,
Lately, every time I shut down XP, there is an alert that pops up saying:
"XPRT Message Window is not responding" and I have to end this manually, repeatedly, until XP finally takes off to shut down.

Has anyone here heard of "XPRT"?

Appreciate the help!

Chance.

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

It's not part of Windows. Before shutting down, hit ctrl+shift+escape and
check the processes tab for clues. Start manually shutting down processes to
try and identify which is the culprit.

I would strongly suspect something installed on the system that shouldn't be
there (spyware, trojan, adware, etc.). You might also look at the startup
load - start/run msinfo32, expand the software environment and click on the
startup programs.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"USCG Vet" > wrote in message
...
Hi,
Lately, every time I shut down XP, there is an alert that pops up saying:
"XPRT Message Window is not responding" and I have to end this manually,
repeatedly, until XP finally takes off to shut down.

Has anyone here heard of "XPRT"?

Appreciate the help!

Chance.

[USCG Vet]

Nutcase,
I ran Spybot and it shows I'm clean. I ran RegDetective (A PC Magazine
utility) and it found nothing in the registry. I will try your instructions
on shut down and see what happens.

Thanks for the pointer.

Chance

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> It's not part of Windows. Before shutting down, hit ctrl+shift+escape and
> check the processes tab for clues. Start manually shutting down processes
to
> try and identify which is the culprit.
>
> I would strongly suspect something installed on the system that shouldn't
be
> there (spyware, trojan, adware, etc.). You might also look at the startup
> load - start/run msinfo32, expand the software environment and click on
the
> startup programs.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "USCG Vet" > wrote in message
> ...
> Hi,
> Lately, every time I shut down XP, there is an alert that pops up saying:
> "XPRT Message Window is not responding" and I have to end this manually,
> repeatedly, until XP finally takes off to shut down.
>
> Has anyone here heard of "XPRT"?
>
> Appreciate the help!
>
> Chance.
>
>
>
>