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Gary Burton
I have the home edition, with SP2. My shutdowns are getting very long, and I am hoping someone can tell me what (if anything) I can do about it -- short of re-installing my system.
With a 2 GHz Athlon and 512 Mb of memory, my shutdown time now goes over a minute. Once my applications are closed and the screen turns blue, I spend about 20 seconds with the message "Saving your settings", then I spend a full 45 seconds looking at the "Windows is shutting down" message. The boot-up time is about 5 seconds longer, where again I am counting from the off condition until I see the desktop. Shutdown time comes to 65 sec from blue-screen to off. Bootup time: 70 sec from off to desktop.
It's been over a year since I installed Windows. I really hate spending several days to re-install Windows and all my applications in order to correct problems like this. Therefore, I try to keep my system very clean. To keep my system clean, I am routinely run Zone Alarm, Norton AntiVirus, AdWatch, and PestPatrol, with occasional scans of SpyBot. I also routinely do an extra deep cleaning of my registry with RegSupreme, and use Resplendent Registrar to defragment the registry. About once every 2 months, I defrag the disk with Norton SpeedDisk.
My system seems to be working just fine. I have a lot of programs loaded -- about 8 Gb not counting data. I don't think that has much to do with it, however, because this long shutdown time occurs even if I don't open anything (other than my TSRs) before I tell it to shut down again.
Am I expecting too much? Is this shutdown time normal under the circumstances? If not, is there a "magic bullet" to speed this thing up?
With a 2 GHz Athlon and 512 Mb of memory, my shutdown time now goes over a minute. Once my applications are closed and the screen turns blue, I spend about 20 seconds with the message "Saving your settings", then I spend a full 45 seconds looking at the "Windows is shutting down" message. The boot-up time is about 5 seconds longer, where again I am counting from the off condition until I see the desktop. Shutdown time comes to 65 sec from blue-screen to off. Bootup time: 70 sec from off to desktop.
It's been over a year since I installed Windows. I really hate spending several days to re-install Windows and all my applications in order to correct problems like this. Therefore, I try to keep my system very clean. To keep my system clean, I am routinely run Zone Alarm, Norton AntiVirus, AdWatch, and PestPatrol, with occasional scans of SpyBot. I also routinely do an extra deep cleaning of my registry with RegSupreme, and use Resplendent Registrar to defragment the registry. About once every 2 months, I defrag the disk with Norton SpeedDisk.
My system seems to be working just fine. I have a lot of programs loaded -- about 8 Gb not counting data. I don't think that has much to do with it, however, because this long shutdown time occurs even if I don't open anything (other than my TSRs) before I tell it to shut down again.
Am I expecting too much? Is this shutdown time normal under the circumstances? If not, is there a "magic bullet" to speed this thing up?