Slow Shutdowns gecko <alpha[ at ]olympus.net> 12/4/2008 1:09:34 PM I am wondering if anyone has run across this problem at some point. It really has a friend stumped. His computer is taking a very long time to shut down. He says he is not just talking about from the time when the pop-up screen comes on that gives you the choice of restart, standby or turn off, which also takes a long time from that point on, but also the time it takes to get to that screen when you hit the Start in the lower left hand corner and select shut down computer. It takes a good 3 minutes to get to the pop-up shut down screen and probably just as long for it to turn completely off. If he restarts the computer and do the shut down routine, it's almost instant, but the longer the computer is on the longer it takes until it maxes out around 3 minutes for both parts of the shut down. He has watched the task manager and just left the computer sit and idle for an hour or more and it still does it. He has even watched the task manager to see if any programs were appearing/running during a shut down and hasn't seen a thing. He says he can't find anything on the internet pertaining to this. Searching slow shut downs on the internet pertain to only the time after the actual shut down begins and not the time preceding part. Thanks -GECKO

RE: Slow Shutdowns GCB 12/4/2008 2:14:04 PM Hi Gecko Despite what you are saying I would guess that this is a program which may be running and causing a slow shut down, take for example AVG anti-virus or Windows Defender if you have your machine powered up long enough for the scans to start it will take much longer for your machine to shut down. I would troubleshoot this by running msconfig from start/run and untick all of the programs from the startup tab, reboot the machine leave it running for a while and then trying to shut it down again, if this works go back to msconfig and gradually start putting the ticks back in the boxes and restarting to see if you can find the culprit. Other reasons for this maybe catalogers/indexers running. Is the machine of a decent spec, plenty of free hard disk space and RAM? Regards, G. Lucas MCP "gecko" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I am wondering if anyone has run across this problem at some point. It > really has a friend stumped. > > His computer is taking a very long time to shut down. He says he is > not just talking about from the time when the pop-up screen comes on > that gives you the choice of restart, standby or turn off, which also > takes a long time from that point on, but also the time it takes to > get to that screen when you hit the Start in the lower left hand > corner and select shut down computer. It takes a good 3 minutes to > get to the pop-up shut down screen and probably just as long for it to > turn completely off. > > If he restarts the computer and do the shut down routine, it's almost > instant, but the longer the computer is on the longer it takes until > it maxes out around 3 minutes for both parts of the shut down. > He has watched the task manager and just left the computer sit and > idle for an hour or more and it still does it. He has even watched > the task manager to see if any programs were appearing/running during > a shut down and hasn't seen a thing. > > He says he can't find anything on the internet pertaining to this. > Searching slow shut downs on the internet pertain to only the time > after the actual shut down begins and not the time preceding part. > > Thanks > > -GECKO >

Re: Slow Shutdowns "Gerry" <gerry[ at ]nospam.com> 12/4/2008 2:25:40 PM gecko Has the Windows XP SP3 update been installed? If the SP3 update has not been installed this suggestion may help. Download and install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service Download details: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service http://snipurl.com/5b61 UPHClean v1.5e readme.txt http://snipurl.com/ko8m Also you might look here: http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm What are the anti-virus and ant-spyware arrangements? http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ gecko wrote: [Quoted Text] > I am wondering if anyone has run across this problem at some point. It > really has a friend stumped. > > His computer is taking a very long time to shut down. He says he is > not just talking about from the time when the pop-up screen comes on > that gives you the choice of restart, standby or turn off, which also > takes a long time from that point on, but also the time it takes to > get to that screen when you hit the Start in the lower left hand > corner and select shut down computer. It takes a good 3 minutes to > get to the pop-up shut down screen and probably just as long for it to > turn completely off. > > If he restarts the computer and do the shut down routine, it's almost > instant, but the longer the computer is on the longer it takes until > it maxes out around 3 minutes for both parts of the shut down. > He has watched the task manager and just left the computer sit and > idle for an hour or more and it still does it. He has even watched > the task manager to see if any programs were appearing/running during > a shut down and hasn't seen a thing. > > He says he can't find anything on the internet pertaining to this. > Searching slow shut downs on the internet pertain to only the time > after the actual shut down begins and not the time preceding part. > > Thanks > > -GECKO