Extremely slow xp shut down

[leekirlew]

I've had this problem for a while now, and it's starting to wind me up now. Heres my system:

Athlon 64 3200+@2.4Ghz
Abit KV8-Pro
Corsair XMS PC4000 2 x 512MB
Gainward 6800GT@Ultra
Maxtor Diamondmax 9 160Gb HD
AOL Broadband

When I hit start and shut down it takes an eternity (few mins) for the options for shut down, restart or log to appear, when they finally appear and I select one it says "windows is shutting down" which takes a while then hangs for about 3-5 mins on "saving settings". I solved this problem once a few months ago by reformatting and reinstalling from scratch, but I don't wanna do that again.
I've looked through event manager and found a high amount of error messages regarding "DCOM" and "service manager" although I'm not sure what these are. I've done disk clean, virus scan, registry clean, and searched for adware with S&D. Now i'm stuck.
The system will shut down and reboot fine if used for less than around 15 mins, The problems seems to occur after been the internet.
Thanks in advance

 

[montag451]

What software do you use, although just looking at the specs, AOL seem to haunt lots of machines that I work on.

 

[sep]

-MS Auto Update, could be downloading patches
-MS Restore could be making a restore point
-Antivirus Could be scanning USB Devices (bootable) for virus like the old floppy check.
-Other Software could be doing a download

*I'd bet money its a software issue. While your in the delayed shutdown state, press the ctrl+alt+del and check the processes. Start shutting down the ones you don't know. Is the system shuts down right after you've term'd it, then that software is your problem.

 

[orion23]

Do you have anything LOGITECH related?

If so, Itouch could be at fault!

 

[leekirlew]

It was a service running in background, not sure which one, I just ran services.msc and disabled the unrequired items, thanks