Windows does not shut down

Slightly off-topic, but if your computer does not respond to an ordinary shutdown command, you can force a shutdown. To do this, select Start, Shutdown in the usual way and, as you click OK, hold down the control key. Use with care as this might terminate processes uncleanly. Always back up your data.

Songs and bands likely to appeal to IT nerds

This list was compiled with the "help" of colleagues. Feel free to add to these bad puns.

• Motley Cruise Control
• Status Disk Quota
• Visio Killed the Radio Star (by De-Buggles)
• Iron Python Maiden
• The Google Dolls
• USB-40
• InXSlt
• Fleetwood (Apple) Mac
• Bob Marley and the E-mailers
• Sonny and SharePoint
• Black-eyed ASPs
• CultureInfo Club
• Re-bootylicious
• System of a Downtime
• Billy Blu-Ray Cyrus
• Snoop Blogg
• Shania Twain interface
• Silverlight Lady
• Public Image Limited Disk Space
• Don't believe the hyperterminal
• Token Ring of Fire (by Jonny Cache)
• Awk This Way (by Runas /user:DMC)
  
• Wired for soundcard
• Dragonforce shutdown
• Bat out of HTML
• Earth, Wind and Firewire
• MPEGgy Sue
• Great balls of Firefox
• Alien Ant Web Farm

And my personal favourite:

Adam and the NAnts

[Edited 8 Oct 2008]