Slow Shutdown

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Mike

My system seems to be taking longer to shutdown, I try to
do maintenance once a week, disc cleanup, defrag, scan, I
have a celeron 2.2 ghz proc. 40Gig HD with 29Gigs free
and 512 megs ram. I have searched Kellys Korner for a
quick shutdown fix but could not find anything. It takes
about 25 secs, any help appreciated. I am trying to keep
up with security updates and such, thanks...Mike
 
The only thing I think would make it shutdown longer than
other computers would be it has a celeron. If I remember,
this processor has no cache. Probably the more stuff you
put on it, the longer it will take, but I don't think 25
seconds is so bad.
 
Start by uninstalling programs. The slow shutdown is probably due to
Windows having to wait for programs to end.

U may also be able to just manually end the programs before you shut
down noticing how long they take to end and if the shutdown proceeds
more rapidly.

Trial and trial again.

culprits I have found include AOL, Juno, Nero INCD, and EZCD programs
 
Also try running regedit (Start>Run>regedit) and checking

HKLM>System>CurrentControlSet>Control>Session Manager>Memory Management

If the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown equals 1 then change it to 0
(Right-click it and choose modify)
If it was 1 then try and identify which of your installed programs might
have changed this setting eg a file eraser etc
Clearing your page file every shutdown can certainly cause long delays.
Jon
 
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