Once in a lifetime, you may encounter a problem on Windows XP that you cannot log off or shutdown your computer. You may click on Log off <user> or Shutdown… but eventually nothing happens.
The following errors typically then show up in your eventlog:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: USER32
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1073
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Description: The attempt to power off %pc% failed
If you want to solve this issue, there’s a good and a bad point.… Read the rest