Windows Vista shut down problem

[Shehzad]

I have an HP530 notebook with standard features and 2GB RAM, bought in May
2008. The system comes with a bulit in Windows Vista Home edition.

For past few months the system has a painfully slow shutdown, in which has
taken from 30 minutes to 9 hours to shutdown after i pressed the shutdown
button on the start menu.

But lately, since last few weeks, upon pressing shutdown, the system gets in
to the logging off mode and never shuts down. I have left it for around 12
hours one day and it did not finish logging of. I now have to manually give
it a hard reboot by pushing down the power button.

Is this a known problem or is there any knows solution to this problem.

Microsoft, please help me

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

The problem is caused by a process not responding to the <terminate> signal
properly. Before initiating shutdown, use task manager to selectively close
some non-system processes. If it shuts down ok, then you know the problem
stems from one of the ones you terminated. If not, try some different ones.
Processes used by P2P, chat, and other services are most frequently the
cause of this sort of problem.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com