Slow Shut Down
Apr 24, 2006
I have an Alienware Sentia laptop with a 1.8Ghz processor, 1Gb RAM running XP Sp-2 It has AVG Firewall & Virus guard & I regularly run Spybot Search & Destroy. It starts up quickly & runs fast, I love it. until it's time to shut down. After clicking the red Shutdown button it takes nearly 90 seconds before the lights actually all go out. The screen does it's "windows is shutting down" bit & then goes black but the green LED for disc activity continues for 30-40 seconds which seems an age when you're just stood waiting for it.Anyone any ideas to speed it up? Or know why it does it (I won't mind so much if I know why) I'm sure it wasn't this slow for the first few months.
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Jul 25, 2007
It was configured with windows vista I was using Windows Vista 32bit for 2 months and then switched to 64 bit for the next 2 months. Things were slow, startup, shutdown, normal working etc. Some games ran slow (Halflife 2:Episode One, Company of Heroes), some games ran perfect (Oblivion Elder Scrols, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory). Then I switched back to XP. we have really degraded our thinking level. We guys used to complain about the slow startup and shut down speeds of XP.
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Feb 12, 2009
I've been reading thru posts & seem to have some big time slow down issues. I'll post as much info as I can to get started please let me know what else may be needed to help clean this laptop up.
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Apr 30, 2007
For 2 days now it takes my computer a long time to load up and a long time to shutdown. I did a scan for spyware, trojans and virus's and it still hasn't fixed the problem.
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Nov 2, 2008
I am wondering if they are all related. When I click start>shut down, computer hangs up for about 5 minutes before the box, shut down, restart, etc. shows up-computer then shuts down normally.When I print documents, the first will print, then it takes a long time before another will print. The printer is new and works fine. It is connected to this computer, but shared over a home network. Does the same with the other computers in the network.The computer screen will occasionally go dark and just reboot.
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Apr 20, 2006
comp is running very slow... he signs in and gets kicked out and computer shuts down sometimes.
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Apr 30, 2007
I recently downloaded and installed the latest security updates for Win XP. The computer runs fine, but when
it is time to shut it down it takes an extremely long time to complete the shut down. I defragmented the hard
drive thinking that would solve the problem but it had no noticeable affect
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Oct 18, 2004
One of the most common XP topic concerns shut-down or power-down issues. The solution can be as simple as going into Power Options in Control Panel and changing the "When I Press The Power Button" setting to: "shut down" or so complex that it simply can't be identified. Sometimes it's a third party product causing a reboot at Shutdown (ie, Roxio CD 5.0 - and there is a fix). Unquestionably, one of the best sites for coverage of this topic is at AUMHA.ORG. I have taken the liberty of pasting the comprehensive information they provide below. Please take the time to locate your specific problem and read their suggested fix. If you still have questions, then by all means post them in the General Questions Forum.
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May 10, 2010
Lately my computer has been extremely slow, not just internet slow but onboard slow. For example, if I click on an application from the desktop it will sit there for 10-20 seconds before anything happens. Occasionally I'll click multiple times on something and nothing will happen then 30 seconds later it will open multiple instances of things. This delay has been happening with just about anything I click on, acting like the computer's busy doing something else when nothing else should be going on. I've looked in the task manager and the applications column will be blank
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Oct 7, 2007
Whenever I try to shut down, I get a couple of End Now messages, these are usually msnmsg.exe and explorer.exe. I'm running Windows XP Media Centre Edition.
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Jul 24, 2005
Just did a new install of Windows XP, which does not shut down properly when I either Turn Off the Computer or Restart.
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Apr 29, 2006
When i try and shut down py PC, it will not shut down? i can hibernate the PC but can not Shut down or log off?
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Feb 17, 2007
I have always shut down my pcs at the end of the day, assuming it saved household electric bills etc. However on my new Vista machine it actually says not to..just to let it go into sleep mode as it's better for it.Ok I can leave that one.. but should I also be leaving my XP pc and lap tops running and if so why? My main Xp computer is getting on a bit (3 years old and pretty full but runs my router ok) so I want to treat it.
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Mar 7, 2005
Just set up my daughter's Dell w/Home XP fp2 machine and notice I get a message "rundll32.exe shutting down" when I try to shut down machine. I ran ADAWARE spyware removal and it removes two files that are listed as MALWARE. WindowsSystem32a EXE and Windowssystem32Bridge.dll. If I remove them then I get a notice on startup that it can't find Windowssys32ride.dll.
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Nov 13, 2007
I decided to use a computer at an Elementary school I work at in Japan. I switched it on and then checked my email and surfed the web. I decided to shut down the computer after I finished. The next day a teacher says do not shut down the computer because last night teachers could not use the computer. Is this just a security reason once you shut down you can't use the computer again for that day? I always thought it was simply reenter the password and reconnect to the internet again to use the computer again.
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Sep 30, 2005
my winXP can be shut down must click twice the "shut down" botton
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Nov 9, 2007
For the last couple of days my XP system will not shut down. It gets to the Windows Is Shutting Down stage and hangs, I waited for over an hour but it stays the same.I tried to use the System Restore to go back a few days but this will not work either.I've added nothing nor changed anything on the system.
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Mar 7, 2005
I just built a new computer and installed windows xp home sp2 oem and even without anything else unstalled the computer will not fully shut down it gets to the windows is shutting down screen and then it just sits there until you hold in the power button. Let me know what else you need to know.
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Jul 17, 2005
A friend has XP home.Every time he tries to shutdown it goes to the windows is shutting down but never shuts down.
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Jan 26, 2008
When I try to shut down my computer start turnoff computer turn off, nothing happens. I have to shut it down by holding the power button until it shuts down.
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Sep 11, 2007
Every now and then when starting my pc (WinXP), it seems to enter a hanging mode. I know when the problem is occurring because the sound card icon doesn't show on the task bar.I don't know if all programs are non-functioning, but the internet connection and the sound card are not only when this occurs. The main problem: the pc will not shutdown. Bringing up the task manager won't work either, leaving me no choice but to shut off the pc via surge switch. What can cause this problem?
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Mar 16, 2005
My new computer, running XP SP2, generally works fine. However, 9 times out of 10, when I try to log off or shut down at the end of the day, nothing happens. I've trying all the different ways of shutting down I know of (Task Manager, Start Bar, etc.), but nothing has any effect. I can only turn off the computer by manually hitting the power button.
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Jul 9, 2010
This is driving me nuts . I cannot shut down my pc using the conventional manner (start>turn off computer> turn off) when i do that it just restarts and i have to use the power switch to shut it down. Using xp home.
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Jul 29, 2005
When I shot down the computer, it takes at least 5 to 8 min. What I can do ?
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Aug 23, 2005
I have an ASUS A7N8X E-deluxe motherboard running Windows XP pro fully updated, SP2, etc. and I am wondering why it hangs when I shut it down. It doesn't do it all the time, but most of the time. I have even tried to log off first, and it still hangs. Any ideas on how to start figuring out what causes this.
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Jul 8, 2005
My windows xp gateway system locks-up when I go to shut it down
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Dec 8, 2005
Windows randomly & intermittenly just shuts down in the middle of things.This started on my daughter's computer running Win XP SP1 at the time.I suspect a boot sector virus.so I took the hard drive > formatted it > and reinstalled Win XP on my computer at home (which was working fine) they moved so it's been until now before I had a chance to reunite the hard drive with the computer well, first off couldn't boot at all, so out of frustration I formatted the drive again and installed Win 98se as floppy was all I could get to work.so I can boot up ok in win 98, but same problem.sometimes when viewing a file, looking at the contents of a CD, etc.,
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Jun 14, 2009
Windows shuts off,As if it has no power, windows does not shut down. But it restarts even with out being prompted to. At times when it happened say 3 times with timing of about 30 minutes or so. My screen does not start up when windows turns on(start up). Please if any one has a solution or probaple cause I would really like to know. The windows troubleshooter for shutting down or start up problems does not give the symptoms for my pc.
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Nov 3, 2007
I have Windows XP Media Center Edition and it keeps opening on it's own no matter what I'm doing on my computer at the time.I shut it down and it pops back up again, crashing my game window if i'm in a game at the time.I've left my computer normal while i go afk, then come back and it's popped up again.It does this randomly.I've tried killing the process ehtray.exe in task manager, and I've stopped and disabled all WMC services but nothing works.I don't use the WMC so how can I keep this from opening?This just started recently and I haven't changed anything on my computer.Btw, I've scanned my computer with Symantec Antivirus, Adaware, SpySweeper, & RegClean.
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Aug 2, 2005
When I go to the start button and go to the turn off computer option, the computer freezes. Then when I shut down by going to windows task manager, after everything closes and goes to the screen "windows is now shutting down", it never shuts down. The computer just stays on that screen forever, and then I have to shut off the computer with the power button.
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Apr 26, 2008
When i open IE6 it takes over a minute for the webpage to appear and meanwhile i cant minimise it etc...... It looks like the program is failing to respond but doesn't say so. Once loaded browsing is normal, althought every time a separate IE window is opened the initial slow response applies followed by normal browsing.
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