Hi, I would be greatful if anyone can help! When I shut down Windows XP it hangs at the screen 'Windows is Shutting Down' for about 5 minutes, then closes. It is slow to start also, about 2 minutes. I can see nothing obvious, and although I may have downloaded an update, I can't remember.

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you can try bios defaults and power drain(disconnect all cables from the back of the system and keep the power button on the system pressed for 20 seconds.)also try going into safe mode and uninstall the ACPI power options in the device manager.

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Also check just how many startup programs and utilities you are running.  The more 
you load, the longer it takes to both start and shut down.  Drop some of the none 
essentials and see if it shortens the time






On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 12:34 pm, Michael Olley wrote:
>Hi, I would be greatful if anyone can help!  When I shut down Windows XP it hangs 
>at the screen 'Windows is Shutting Down' for about 5 minutes, then closes.  It is 
>slow to start also, about 2 minutes.  I can see nothing obvious, and although I 
may 
>have downloaded an update, I can't remember.

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XP can take a "long" time to shut down if you have the security settings set to delete 
the page file at each shutdown, but I don't think that can account for five minutes 
of shutdown.

What's your antivirus and anti-spy/scumware status?

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I seldom have delays at startup.  But at shutdown I've seen delays of several minutes 
if there are other users logged on.

In particular I have an account with admin rights that I use for getting Windows 
updates, etc.  Sometimes if I leave that account logged on and especially if there 
are programs running, it can take several minutes to shutdown from my normal non-admin 
account.







On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 12:34 pm, Michael Olley wrote:
>Hi, I would be greatful if anyone can help!  When I shut down Windows XP it hangs 
>at the screen 'Windows is Shutting Down' for about 5 minutes, then closes.  It is 
>slow to start also, about 2 minutes.  I can see nothing obvious, and although I 
may 
>have downloaded an update, I can't remember.

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Thanks. I have tried this, but no luck.


On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 1:00 pm, naman wrote:
>you can try bios defaults and power drain(disconnect all cables from the back of
>the system and keep the power button on the system pressed for 20 seconds.)also try
>going into safe mode and uninstall the ACPI power options in the device manager.

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Sorry I do not know how to check whether my security settings are set to delete the page file at each shutdown. My Antivirus & Spyware are new - I uninstalled the old, and installed new after the problem started happening. I use AntiVir XP and Ad-aware 6.0.


On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 2:43 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:

>XP can take a "long" time to shut down if you have the security settings set to 
delete 
>the page file at each shutdown, but I don't think that can account for five minutes 
>of shutdown.
>
>What's your antivirus and anti-spy/scumware status?

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Yes, but what does it mean when you go to shutdown, and a dialog pops up warning you that there are other users logged on, and shutting down may cause them to lose data, OWTTE... *What* other users? There's nobody here but me! Am I being hacked or something? My cable internet connection is hooked up to a router/switch that has a firewall running, and this XP laptop uses that as a gateway. I'm not running a firewall locally, but I guess I could. But none of my other machines seem to display this behaviour. Pete


On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at 4:50 pm, Steve B wrote:

>I seldom have delays at startup.  But at shutdown I've seen delays of several minutes 
>if there are other users logged on.
>


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