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| Thread ID: 80023 | 2007-06-09 03:09:00 | XP slow shutdown | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 557467 | 2007-06-09 03:09:00 | My Compaq Presario 2500 running XP Home SP2 has decided to take a week to shutdown. I’ve cleaned everything out with CCleaner, I’ve run Symantic Win Doctor, AVG gives a clean bill of health, adaware found nothing, defragged and now I’ve run out of ideas. I also close all running programmes prior to shutting down Windows. I do recall seeing somewhere what causes this problem but I can’t for the life of me think where. It’s only recently started this nonsense and appears to be getting worse. Any suggestions anyone? :help: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 557468 | 2007-06-09 03:31:00 | Its usually because its trying to close some process that is resisting for whatever reason. Whats running right before you shut down? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 557469 | 2007-06-09 04:18:00 | Windoctor most probably screwed something up knowing Symantec. Ccleaner would have done the same thing. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 557470 | 2007-06-09 04:42:00 | How much free disk space have you got? | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 557471 | 2007-06-09 06:20:00 | Easy.. go to microsoft and get uphclean.exe and see if that fixes it | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 557472 | 2007-06-09 06:43:00 | A week to shut down? Why not leave it running? |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 557473 | 2007-06-09 07:19:00 | Ok, to start at the top. Pctech: I close everything that’s running down individually, so when I go to turn computer off theoretically only Windows is running. Speedy: I’ve used Windoctor by Symantic (Part of SystemWorks) for years without a problem. I’ve also used Ccleaner and not had a problem there either. The strange thing is I haven’t installed any additional programmes or anything. The problem just seems to be getting worse by the day. Stu: 40gig HDD 10gig in use. Good thought though. Apsatty: Did that but no luck. In fact I think it may have slowed down the loading just for good measure. The computer shows all the symptoms described in the Read Me file, it’s just that uphclean didn’t help when it looked like it should have. Sweep: It’s a Notebook and I don’t have a long enough lead. ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 557474 | 2007-06-09 07:36:00 | "Everything"? Even non-windows processes? | Ripdog (11014) | ||
| 557475 | 2007-06-09 08:24:00 | By everything, I mean everything I have opened and everything shown on the taskbar as running. My guess is there is something still running in the background but how does one find it? I should not be at all surprised if a programme of some sort has taken it upon itself to update automatically and this is the result. :groan: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 557476 | 2007-06-09 09:02:00 | What does event viewer say? | apsattv (7406) | ||
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