Slow Shut Down!!!

When i try to shut down my comp by pressing start, shutdown, enter, it takes so long for the computer to shut down. It says window is getting ready to shut down, window dissapears, there's green background (the window one). Then it has to wait like a minute or most of the times way more to just shut down.... How do i fix this?

 

you might want to exit/kill as many background processes from running as possible manually before you try to shutdown. for example everything 'foriegn' in the system tray, anti-virus software etc.
(if you never use some of this stuff you may want to disable it starting up in the first place too - but that's another story)
see if that makes a difference.
A scandisk and defrag couldn't hurt either.
cheers

 

sorry, I didn't mean to suggest you disable your anti-virus software - only manually kill it just before you shutdown the machine.

 

well that got solved but new problem rose....
everything shuts down, window shuts down and so on... the screen goes blank, shuts down... but the computer is still on! it's on but nothing is running.... like as if it's taking a sleep... it's not on stand by mode but... it won't shut down completely automatically...

 

hi Nanashi
this is starting to sound as tho you might have either a subtle h/w malfunction or a driver issue. I'd suggest making sure you have up-to-date drivers for all mainboard components and latest service packs from microsoft for starters.

Of course if it ever shut down correctly then there must have been a configuration change - that changed something - that stopped the shutdown working correctly.

Do you have any configuration protection type of software (for example configsafe, which shipped with my IBM thinkpad lets me back-track my configuration to be the same as a week ago by taking copies of all my initialisiation and registry files every monday morning. If anything ever goes seriously wrong, then I can resore last weeks settings and the problem is usually fixed)
Other brands may ship with similar protection products, have a look - I think there is even a component of Norton's systemworks which does something similar.

Mike