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    WSjimhaynes
    AskWoody Lounger
    May 27, 2003 at 3:25 pm #388122

    I am recently experiencing very long shutdown times. The screen “Windows is Shutting Down” remains fixed for over 8 minutes, and then the system either restart or shutsdown depending on which option I selected. No programs are running in Task Manger at the time I shut down. The same problem occurs if I elect to shutdown immediately after a a restart. It appears that some program running in the background is slow to shutdown. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

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    • WSviking33
      AskWoody Lounger
      May 27, 2003 at 4:00 pm #680074

      Do you happen to have “clear pagefile at shutdown” enabled? I have found this will slow shutdown considerably.
      You can read about enabling this at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314834%5B/url%5D (MSKB # 314834) To DISABLE this just set the value to “0” instead of “1”.

      Bob

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      • WSjimhaynes
        AskWoody Lounger
        May 27, 2003 at 6:06 pm #680112

        I have never set or enabled Clear Page File at Shutdown unless it was done automatically by some program I installed. Is there some way to check this other than diving into the registry?

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      • WSjimhaynes
        AskWoody Lounger
        May 27, 2003 at 6:15 pm #680115

        I checked my registry. The value is set to 0 thus Clear Pagefile is not enabled.

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        • WSJohnGray
          AskWoody Lounger
          May 27, 2003 at 6:39 pm #680126

          Suggest a Google search on the two words
          XP Shutdown
          Loads of possibly useful hits!

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        • joep517
          AskWoody MVP
          May 27, 2003 at 11:03 pm #680246

          Do you have a Logitech keyboard? If so, check their support site.

          Joe

          --Joe

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    • WSWyllyWylly
      AskWoody Lounger
      May 27, 2003 at 4:24 pm #680082

      Jim, take a look at the Event Viewer to see if there are any notations about services or applications not responding. That’s the first thing to check.

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      • WSjimhaynes
        AskWoody Lounger
        May 27, 2003 at 6:08 pm #680114

        No entries in Event Viewer indicate that there are any nonresponding services or applications.

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    • WSbookbox
      AskWoody Lounger
      May 27, 2003 at 4:38 pm #680088

      Check your firewall. My computer took 7 minutes to shut down. When I reloaded ZA the slow shut down disappeared.

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