windows takes a long time to shut down

[Corporate Thug]

with the rig in sig, windows XP takes upwards of a minute and sometimes longer to shut down. any idea?

i posted here cuz i thought it may be the CPU overclock in some way

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Most of the time, it does this because there are programs running in the b/g that are waiting to close before it starts shutting down.

First, backup yer registry or make a restore point. In Regedit, find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.

Change these settings:
HungAppTimeout=4000 (delay a hung application will wait before it quits when asked, with each 1000 being 1 second)
WaitToKillAppTimeout=4000
AutoEndTasks=1 (this one automatically closes down the programs when winxp starts to shut down)

It should close down much faster with these changes. I'd also suggest disabling any sound you have that plays when XP shuts down (as that's just another brief moment that XP needs to "load" something while you're trying to close down.... seems kinda counter-productive).

All stolen from TweakTown, which has some other good tweaking info for XP in their tweaking guides.

deadseasquirrel

 

[Corporate Thug]

thanx for the response, what is regedit?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: shady06
thanx for the response, what is regedit?

The registry editor... go to Run and type regedit

 

[Corporate Thug]

thanx, did it. i think it helped a little. thanx again

 

[onza]

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[Shimmishim]

yeah good read...

when i removed updates Q329170 and Q328310 it sped up my shut down by A LOT!!

try that as well... if the other thing doesn't work..

 

[pspada]

I find that many parasites, hijacks, and trojans cause slowing when attempting to shut down. Not to mention crap that starts up at boot like qttask (quicktime), evntsvc (real), nwiz (I forget), ctfmon (creative), none of which is necessary to run in memory. Also causes much system slowdown as well.

Go to RUN again, and type msconfig. You can turn some of this off on the startup tab, though the malware tends to come back on it's own.

 

[VisableAssassin]

if you were on win2k id say install SP4....i did and it fixed everything !
however on xp i dunno since i havent gotten around to buying it yet.

 

[ScissorClaw]

One other thing to check is weather your computer is wiping out the virtual memory at shut down. Check it out by going to ...control panel - admin tools - local security policy - security options - then scroll down to "shutdown: clear virtual memory pagefile". Make sure this is disabled, or it takes forever for it to shutdown.

 

[Peter D]

after being installed for a while, windows seems to gradually slow down. i know it always does to me. how old is the install?

 

[pspada]

This ^ is true - but is because over time you add new programs, which increase the size of the registry. Then it takes longer to process the registry, so the machine slows down over time. Not to mention tsr programs that may be installed when you install other stuff.

 

[DivideBYZero]

^ TSR

Old school! (and technically incorrect BTW)

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
yeah good read...

when i removed updates Q329170 and Q328310 it sped up my shut down by A LOT!!

try that as well... if the other thing doesn't work..

this is only with 2000 or XP as well?

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
yeah good read...

when i removed updates Q329170 and Q328310 it sped up my shut down by A LOT!!

try that as well... if the other thing doesn't work..

this is only with 2000 or XP as well?

I'm on XP and have both of those updates installed. XP shuts down immediately everytime with those changes I described above. It might be a 2k thing. I realize that messing with Regedit can be daunting to those who have never used it before... being worried about messing things up beyond repair. After you go to Start--> Run--> regedit, you can then choose File--> Export and save a backup of your registry. That way if you make any accidental changes, you can easily restore the backup.

If you have any trouble finding those exact settings in the registry (which can be difficult to find sometimes), lemme know and I can toss up some screenies.

deadseasquirrel

 

[Yai]

Turn off System Restore. just my .02