10-13-2003, 01:34 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Location: St. Louis/Cincinnati
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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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10-13-2003, 02:07 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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sounds like you might need a reinstall
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10-13-2003, 02:28 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Location: Austin, TX
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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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10-13-2003, 07:19 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Location: NY
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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". |
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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10-14-2003, 10:10 AM | #6 (permalink) |
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Location: Central Coast CA
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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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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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10-15-2003, 02:08 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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Location: Indian-no-place
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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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10-16-2003, 07:01 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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Location: North Hollywood
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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. |
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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