basically, it didn't take forever to shutdown.
simply putting it, the system didn't shutdown.


likely an issue with hardware....
try testing the theory via safemode..

"Ritter197" wrote in message
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I have gotten a new 4400+ HP computer, dual core, with WindowsXP. SP#2

It takes sometimes forever (last night I went to bed and in the morning it
still had not shut down)

I have run 3 different programs (Ad-aware, Spybot search and destroy and
Adware away) plus an AV program NOD32. None find a problem.

I have also run a defrag with Diskkeeper 10 two days ago, ( it is also
set to defrag in the background) but it still has this big problem with
shutdown.

My 2.8Ghz computer shuts down almost immediately by comparison, running
the same Windows XP, SP #2 and many more programs.

What are your ideas here ?