When my Windows 7 is shutting down very often I get a display which tells me that certain programs are still active and prevent W7 from shutting down. Most time only NxDock is mentioned. Many times though W7 continues to shut down without my intervention, but in rare cases W7 insists on user intervention to explicitly close that program and confirm forced shut dowwn.

The shut down of W7 is initated by an AHK script which first writes something to a log file and then terminates windows with the statement

I could add +4 to the parameter (Shutdown, 12) to force all open applicatons to be terminated. But this is dangerous, because sometimes i forget to ordinary close an app and would loose data.

I could, however, add the explicit close of NxDock into the script with

But I do not know the sequence of kestrokes to terminate NxDock - and: is this really the Workshelf main prgram?

Another question is whether the W7 message could be avoided whith Workshelf > Preferences > General > More Options > Force shutdown activated. The help is text is not clear for me for this option.

Any ideas are welcome
Klaus Daube

I need to add to my post:

• - There is no such program NxDock in the folder where i have installed NextStep programs (H:\Utilities\Winstep)
• - There is no reference to NxDock in the startup folder
• - There is no NxDock.exe on C:
• - While the workshelf is active there is no NxDock.xe in the process list

So where finds W7 this program which it can not close automatically at shut down?

Klaus Daube