Windows 98 not shutting down properly

[daltonv]

Whenever I try to shut down windows 98 on VirtualBox, it never completely shuts down. I will click on the start menu, and select shut down, but it gets stuck on the "Microsoft Windows 98 Windows is shutting down" screen. I've left it like this for a long time and it just doesn't do anything, and there is no disk activity. The only software I have installed on the system is the SciTech Display Doctor video drivers, could that be interfering with the shutdown process?

[mpack]

Win98SE used to do that to me on real PCs. And yes, Microsoft always used to blame 3rd party drivers not unloading when told to... on balance I tend to believe them.

[Xario123]

This is an old post, but the solution can still be useful to someone. I was in the same situation as you. This procedure works well for me.

Type : "How to Enable ACPI Support in Windows 98" on Google and click on the first link.

Follow the procedure.

[socratis]

@Xario123
Thank you! This is indeed very good information! I tried it and works as advertised. Here is the link that you were referring to: http://www.helpwithwindows.com/windows98/tune-37.html

And to have a small summary in case the site disappears:
Add a new DWORD value ACPIOption set to 1, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \CurrentVersion \ Detect. Reboot and make available the Win98 CD.

[socratis]

Update: It even supports the ACPI-Shutdown (HostKey-U) from VirtualBox. Nice!