Windows 7 takes ages to shutdown

[Ankur]

I have Windows 7 Home premium, since I started playing Battlefield 3 on my PC I see my PC is taking ages to shut down. I think about 2-3 minutes (2-3 minutes after the windows logon screen appears). Now that is slow shutdown time.

Can anyone tell me what must be the issue? Of course I am running lot of background programs, but I close everything then shutdown.
But the process of shutdown takes time. Talking about boot time, its fast enough. Extra info: HDD 7200 RPM, RAM 4GB 1333MHz.

 

[Koffer]

Have you tried cleaning your registry?

 

[jllipke]

Go through your things and find stuff you don't want, need or don't know where it came from and get rid of it

Thats what I do to make my Computer faster

 

[Phy]

It's generally a good idea to figure out what the program is before deleting it.

 

[Okedokey]

Use MSCONFIG to disable any services (ensure you click hide MS services), and startup programs.

Go to CMD (as admin) and type (with spaces): sfc /scannow

Update Windows.

Defrag disk

 

[DMGrier]

If non of that works I would try a fresh install of Windows or Ubuntu.