Uninstall the "Compaq Insight Management" software from add/remove programs (control panel). You Windows 98 Second Edition should now shutdown properly. I was trying to troubleshoot this problem for ...

ok, so my gf has 4 compaq keyboards for one computer, one of them died, so she got a replacement for it, but apparently when they sent it out, they somehow managed to send 3 more instead of just one.

It's fun to blow the dust off computers of the 80s and 90s and show they still can function. But what if you had to actually work on one of these relics? YouTube ...