shutdown

As mentioned briefly in the comments section of Bootstrapping your Linux Machine, recent Linux systems have added a convenience feature to the 'halt' and 'reboot' commands: they actually call 'shutdown' if the system isn't in init state 0 or 6.

Apparently, Google does not like when others make their search features more functional than they already are... or at least ones that don't violate their TOS agreement.

Question: My problem is on XP sometimes when I shutdown, I get a warning that says "other people are logged on to this computer. data may be lost" even if not hooked to my network or the net. what is this and how can I fix it. thanks for any help you can give - Steve