Seems to be the way of Windows 95,98 and ME. No fixes are planned for these issues.
Bob
Sometimes when I need to restart both from start and if I have installed a new program and it asks if you want to restart now or later, I get the message that it is not responding with options to wait, end task, or cancel. When I click on end task, then it goes ahead with the restart to completion.

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