I'm not sure if these are related issues but I currently run Me and I just installed the Kodak EasyShare program that came with my digital camera.   When I shut the puter down it just goes to this dark gray screen and keeps running.......just won't quite shut down.

I have to do a hard shut down with the power button every time and then scan disk runs when I reboot.    

Any ideas, suggestions?    I was having freeze ups several months ago and called Dell.   They walked me through some steps to remove programs that run in the backround i.e.   norton, aim, quicktime....etc.....because of the same problem.   Now that Kodak EasyShare is down in the tray near the time it is doing it again.     Related issue?