Windows XP takes AGES!! to shut down

[Maximilian]

Hi, windows XP takes like 2 minutes to shutdown, it sits at the "shutting down" screen for ages before it turns off. If im goin to bed, i can click shutdown then go brush my teeth or w/e come back and its still on. Just wondered why? and is there anything i can do?

BTW my main HDD is 160 GB and 127 of those are used in case this is why it takes so long. Just a theory.

 

[Xyclone]

Sounds like a virus. Run an antivirus, Spybot, and Hijack This! scan, and tell us what's up.

 

[volrath]

Logitech iTouch software caused this for me a while ago. But doesn't anymore. Basically, it's something trying to be shut down that is failing to shutdown and has to time out before it is killed. If it were linux, you could tell what it is and stop it from doing that. But Windows... good luck tracing it down. Look in your event log.

 

[trader869]

definately check for virus's or spyware. after that go into the registry and change wait to kill to 0,default is 2000 i think...... HKEYLOCALMACHINE/SYSTEM/CURRENTCONTROLSET/CONTROL..when you highlight control it should be the last one. hope that helps

 

[Valkerie]

My system is way more stable and shuts down faster when I installed:

antivirus/firewall
spyware/adware killers

 

[jaykleg]

If you check out this article and use the information therein along with the linked download location at Microsoft for the UPHClean utility I think you'll probably have what you need. You can use the troubleshooting technique (requiring a registry edit) in the article or just install the utility (runs as a service) and let it do its thing.

You might also check out this article at the JSI FAQ for a very good rundown on use of the utility.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: jaykleg
If you check out this article and use the information therein along with the linked download location at Microsoft for the UPHClean utility I think you'll probably have what you need. You can use the troubleshooting technique (requiring a registry edit) in the article or just install the utility (runs as a service) and let it do its thing.

You might also check out this article at the JSI FAQ for a very good rundown on use of the utility.

Thats the one, error 1517 shows up regularly in event viewer. Ima try and fix it with UPHclean if i can. Thanks

 

[jaykleg]

You're welcome. I suggest using the diagnostic functions of UPHClean to see if you can figure out what's hanging at shutdown time. Although it's pretty easy to identify the proximal cause of a hive not unloading, it's not always so easy to be sure that that proximal cause is actually the real culprit. I've seen various processes implicated during the initial diagnostic phase and subsequently exonerated when I learned that an aggressive and stubborn realtime AV scanner was the root cause.

I've got into the habit of installing UPHClean on every new build of Windows XP -- just in case. Doesn't do any harm to have it there. If you read what MS has to say about it, it handles this issue the "proper" way, which has made me wonder why the service wasn't included in a service pack in the first place.

Please let us know if you manage to get this shutdown behavior fixed.