I went to the event log and see that it stops a number of times at
"application hangs" but it does not give the name of the application.

It also stopped at an userevent #1517 .

In Safe Mode it shuts down very quickly.




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"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 ?




For starters, check the Event Viewer (Run eventvwr.msc) entries under
Application, System corresponding to time when shutdown was initiated.

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