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Old 10-13-2003, 01:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Shutdown problem

Anyone know what could cause my shutdown process to take like 5 minutes? I shut every program down before and it still does it. I cannot figure it out and it just started it like a month ago out of the blue.
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Old 10-13-2003, 02:07 PM   #2 (permalink)
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sounds like you might need a reinstall
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Old 10-13-2003, 02:28 PM   #3 (permalink)
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depends on what operating system you are running.

run up to the windows update site and look for a "shut down fix" or something of the name.
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Old 10-13-2003, 07:19 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I would say that It sounds like you are running win2k with either service pack 3 or if you installed this update http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;329170

I have seen that one also slow down the shutdown of windows. I have heard that this is fixed with SP4 (haven't tried it yet). If you are running a different OS, let us know so that we can make a more informed "guess".
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Old 10-13-2003, 08:03 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Oops, forget to mention some specs:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

HP Custom-built online (came with Windows 98SE) installed XP around 1.5 years ago, best 100 bucks spent
AMD Athlon 850MHz
512 MB SDRAM
40 GB Maxtor HDD
64 MB NVidia Geforce2 video card
Crappy stock sound card

I doubt it is a hardware problem, though
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Old 10-14-2003, 10:10 AM   #6 (permalink)
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how long do you leave your computer on for? i leave mine on for days a ta time and when i do reset it it has to save a lot of changes as well as i have it erase the virtual memory (2 gigs) so it takes me like 10 min some times


just let it do its thing, it needs to dont just kill the power


further did you tweek any thing, like erasing virtual memory when you shut the compiter down?
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Old 10-15-2003, 01:43 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I shut it down before I go to bed so I just hit shut down and turn the monitor off and let it do its thing
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Old 10-15-2003, 02:08 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I had this problem once, I found a program at download.com, it was an XP tweaker. Somehow, my computer was deleting the swap file every time I turned it off. If you uncheck that option, allow the computer to maintain the swap file for next time, it may not take as long to shutdown. <- retaining the swapfile is default for windows XP.

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Old 10-16-2003, 06:00 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Where do you go in XP to uncheck the swap file box?
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Old 10-16-2003, 07:01 PM   #10 (permalink)
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bootvis will help diagnose shutdown problems, although microsoft dont want end users using it ( as the functionality is built into XP anyway ) they removed it off their site, but you can still find it, and it shows you whats taking a long time...

if the disk isn't doing anything and the machine just seems to pause, most likely its a driver doing something incorrectly, my orinocco wireless cards do that.
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Old 11-02-2003, 10:00 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Thanks Saltfish, it was the swap file. I downloaded the shareware program XP-Tweak Pro and i used that to unchekc the swapfile and after that it shut down in about 20 seconds. Thanks a bunch
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Old 11-02-2003, 08:21 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Why would you want to delete the swap file on shutdown anyways?
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Old 11-02-2003, 09:56 PM   #13 (permalink)
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We should ask Mr. Gates
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Old 11-02-2003, 10:05 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Well Mr. Gates has made windows to NOT delete the swap file... unless you change the default setting...
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