shut down my pc

My m - 58 lenovo pc is fairly new and we are using windows xp. in recent weeks I try to stop, the pc goes into hour long routine (i.e. infinite) where he says it stops - but this isn't - about 3 times out of 4. the other time it stops normally. I don't do anything differently when stopping down, so don't understand why it does sometimes and not other times. I close all the programs in advance.
I end up pushing the power button for a while to stop.  When I start the pc in the morning, I don't get a message saying that the machine was badly off.
There is nothing worse than to wake up in the night, thinking that you have turned off your machine and then, seeing the light emitted by the office and the darn thing always stops...
I need to know what I can do... and the response must be adapted to a non-technical person. Thank you.

XP discussion groups:

http://www.Microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?DG=Microsoft.public.WindowsXP.General

Link above is to the XP newsgroups.

There is a list of groups of discussion XP to the bottom of the left column.

You get the help you need there.

Here is the Vista Forums.

See you soon

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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