David B. wrote:
I have an old XP laptop, and it seems to take longer than it should for
the shutdown window to show up. I get this hourglass that sits there
for a while (couple minutes) before the the shutdown window opens up.

Is it just old, or is there a way to get it to shutdown quicker?


It could be just about anything. There are actually a sillion things
that jam up at shutdown.

Thus, the following is a simple minded answer, based on
just one root cause.

This utility, "UPHClean", is a utility created around the WinXP
era, that fixed the open hives problem and accelerated shutdown. Later
OSes, the function was incorporated into the OS.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/det...p_service.html

Typically on WinXP, everything would be fine, the user would
install an ATI video driver, and suddenly there was an open
registry hive at shutdown and shutdown was slower than before the
driver was installed. UPHClean could fix it.

But something network-related can get wedged too, so it's
not like UPHClean can address them all.

Paul