Help With Shutting Down My Laptop- Takes Too Long

Peachesbackwards · 11-29-2007, 12:52 PM

Would appreciate anyones suggestions as for some reason my Toshiba Tecra A8
Core 2 Duo XP O/S, for some reason is now taking about 5 minutes to shut down
whereas it use to be real fast. Boot up time is still fast but I have no idea what's causing this to be so slow shutting down. I don't have any viruses, defrag every week as well as check for spyware & adware & nada. Chk dsc revealed nothing either. What do I do? Punt?

dmaksimov · 11-29-2007, 07:30 PM

you might have alot of processes running that takes a long time to turn off

nffc10 · 11-29-2007, 07:57 PM

Is it fairly new? Within the last couple of months? because it might just be installing loads of new updates. I know every time i reformat i have to go through this process for about a week.

Peachesbackwards · 11-29-2007, 08:29 PM

Yeah its been about 2 weeks. Anything that I can do? As far as the processes running well I have hardly any checked on MSCONFIG

imsati · 11-30-2007, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Peachesbackwards

Yeah its been about 2 weeks. Anything that I can do? As far as the processes running well I have hardly any checked on MSCONFIG

Do a CTRL/ALT/DELETE and look in the lower left-hand corner of the Task Manager. How many processes are listed? Ideal for average Home-user is 40-ish.

11-29-2007, 12:52 PM	#1 (permalink)
Peachesbackwards Silver Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 145	Help With Shutting Down My Laptop- Takes Too Long Would appreciate anyones suggestions as for some reason my Toshiba Tecra A8 Core 2 Duo XP O/S, for some reason is now taking about 5 minutes to shut down whereas it use to be real fast. Boot up time is still fast but I have no idea what's causing this to be so slow shutting down. I don't have any viruses, defrag every week as well as check for spyware & adware & nada. Chk dsc revealed nothing either. What do I do? Punt?

11-29-2007, 07:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
dmaksimov Bronze Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 99	you might have alot of processes running that takes a long time to turn off __________________ cpu: amd athlon 64 3200+ ram: 1 gb 120 gb hard drive 200 gb hard driv graphics card: 128 mb nvidia geforce 6100

11-29-2007, 07:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
nffc10 Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Nottingham Age: 18 Posts: 1,659	Is it fairly new? Within the last couple of months? because it might just be installing loads of new updates. I know every time i reformat i have to go through this process for about a week. __________________ Amd Athlon 64 X2 6000+ @ 3.31GHz Asrock AM2NF3 VSTA 2gb Corsair XMS2 PC5400 Sapphire X800XL 256MB AGP 80GB Maxtor Hard Drive OCZ StealthXtreme 600W PSU Pictures - 1 2 3 http://www.treasuretrooper.com/438654

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11-29-2007, 08:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
Peachesbackwards Silver Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 145	Yeah its been about 2 weeks. Anything that I can do? As far as the processes running well I have hardly any checked on MSCONFIG