Windows 98 hangs on shutdown "DDE Server Window"

Hello!

First at all I have a problem that my right clicking on some .exe files only
works sluggish and think maybe because of a corrupt file.

Anyway,yesterday I had the problem that my Windows 98 couldn't shutdown
because I got this message:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------­-
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DDE Server Window

This program is not responding. It may be busy, waiting for a response from
you or it may have stopped running


· click Cancel to ignore and return to windows
· to close the program immediately, click End Task.. You will loose any
unsaved information in this program
· to give the programe 20 seconds to finish what it is doing click Wait and
then try to close the program


Wait End Task
Cancel
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When I hit the "End Task" Button the task didn't end.
And in the title of the dialog it says "DDE Server Window" ?

I thought maybe both problems are because of
a corrupt file or registry setting ,but don't know.

Does anyone please know how to solve this?

thx

I could solve the problem with the .exe files with a .reg file.
The "DDE Server Window" didn't come again yet ,well I can tell
if I get the message again...




"win98" schrieb:

> Hello!
>
> First at all I have a problem that my right clicking on some .exe files only
> works sluggish and think maybe because of a corrupt file.
>
> Anyway,yesterday I had the problem that my Windows 98 couldn't shutdown
> because I got this message:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­-
> --------------------------------------
> DDE Server Window
>
> This program is not responding. It may be busy, waiting for a response from
> you or it may have stopped running
>
>
> · click Cancel to ignore and return to windows
> · to close the program immediately, click End Task.. You will loose any
> unsaved information in this program
> · to give the programe 20 seconds to finish what it is doing click Wait and
> then try to close the program
>
>
> Wait End Task
> Cancel
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> When I hit the "End Task" Button the task didn't end.
> And in the title of the dialog it says "DDE Server Window" ?
>
> I thought maybe both problems are because of
> a corrupt file or registry setting ,but don't know.
>
> Does anyone please know how to solve this?
>
>