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To: wily who wrote (5078)	8/10/1999 3:27:00 AM
From: RJL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110603

"Got another idea. Edit the lines out of Autoexec.bat, then turn the power off without shutting down Windows. That'll tell you if Windows is doing something at shutdown." Interesting idea, I'll take a look and see what happens. "Is there any way to do a search of all the text files in a folder or a drive without opening them? That would make it easy to locate the piece of text you're looking for." Yep, nothing has come up of consequence. "Is there any possibility this could be the result of something written into the BIOS?" I was thinking about this one. If it is plug & play related, either the BIOS or Windows itself is re-asserting these lines which must have been set-up originally. Now that the software has been removed though, I should have been able to see these lines referenced in the registry...which I don't. Saga continues... Rich