My PC takes 20 miutes to shutdown

[John McFadden]

Has anyone had this experience? I have Win XP Pro, and I
shut down from the desktop with no Apps running, and in
normal reboot or shutdown it takes so long. Windows goes
through the normal shutdown procedure, but hangs with
the ""Windows is shutting down,"" message displayed. I
have 1 system drive and a 4 drive raid, mirrored and
striped, but it should write to the disk during APP use.
Not at shutdown. Could windows be setting restore points?
I've compared my Process list to my 2nd computer and the
only differences are accounted for by different Apps.
I've also compared processes and services to 'Black
Vipers' web site recommendations with no change in this
performance. Ive also used Spybot, Adware, and Norton
lookig for something unusual but nothing changes after a
minor clean up. Thanks in advance for any help, advice,
or commiseration. Thanks, John.

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

The first thing you can do is boot the system, wait a bit until all
startups are done starting up, and then shutdown. If your machine shuts
down rapidly, then it isn't likely a startup, service, or driver issue.
If your machine shuts down slowly, you should look into your services
and startups for the problem. msconfig.exe is a nice program that lets
you sequentially disable startup items to find the one at fault. I
wouldn't suspect the drivers unless you get specific funny behavior or
blue-screen errors.

www.aumha.org has a shutdown page that might help.
http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/shutdown.htm

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"John McFadden" > wrote in
message ...

> Has anyone had this experience? I have Win XP Pro, and I
> shut down from the desktop with no Apps running, and in
> normal reboot or shutdown it takes so long. Windows goes
> through the normal shutdown procedure, but hangs with
> the ""Windows is shutting down,"" message displayed. I
> have 1 system drive and a 4 drive raid, mirrored and
> striped, but it should write to the disk during APP use.
> Not at shutdown. Could windows be setting restore points?
> I've compared my Process list to my 2nd computer and the
> only differences are accounted for by different Apps.
> I've also compared processes and services to 'Black
> Vipers' web site recommendations with no change in this
> performance. Ive also used Spybot, Adware, and Norton
> lookig for something unusual but nothing changes after a
> minor clean up. Thanks in advance for any help, advice,
> or commiseration. Thanks, John.