My computer takes over 1.5 minutes to shutdown :(

Freshy-KFreshy-K in your head
edited January 2004 in Science & Tech
The subject says it all. Whenever I shutdown or restart, it takes over one and half minutes just to get back to bios. I don't remember installing anything or messing with any settings that could have caused this. I don't want to mess with any random settings to try to fix it because it takes a god awful amount of time to just get back to windows.

My boot up speed is fine at around 20 seconds so thats fine.

And I don't think my computer specs have anything to do with the extremely long shutdown times. It used to work fine till the other day and I'm baffled.

And I'm really not in the mood to reformat so do any of you know what the hell is going on here?

Thanks!

Comments

  • Red-SquirrelRed-Squirrel Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2003
    Are you using win2k? I find win2k to be slow at shutting down. I end up hitting refresh out of patiance. It just stays stuck at "saving your settings" for a long time. I don't know what settings have to be saved, because I would assume that when I change settings, they are changed right away.
  • tophericetopherice Oak Ridge, TN
    edited December 2003
    From the O'Reilly book XP Hacks:

    If shutting down XP takes what seems to be an inordinate amount of time, here are a couple of steps you can take to speed up the shutdown process:

    Don't have XP clear your paging file at shutdown
    For security reasons, you can have XP clear your paging file (pagefile.sys) of its contents whenever you shut down. Your paging file is used to store temporary files and data, but when your system shuts down, information stays in the file. Some people prefer to have the paging file cleared at shutdown, because sensitive information such as unencrypted passwords sometimes ends up in the file. However, clearing the paging file can slow shutdown times significantly, so if extreme security isn't a high priority, you might not want to clear it. To shut down XP without clearing your paging file, run the Registry Editor and go to:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
    Change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0. Close the Registry and restart your computer. Whenever you turn off XP from now on, the paging file won't be cleared, and you should be able to shut down more quickly.

    Turn off unnecessary services
    Services take time to shut down, so the fewer you run, the faster you can shut down.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2003
    I've had this problem before crop up and it was usually tied to a system having troubles breaking a good network connection or (and more often) trying to shutdown a network connection that was already shutdown.

    So with that in mind if you are on some version of highspeed. Disconnect the cat cable from the back of your machine so that it never activates the network connection and then see how long it takes to shut down.
  • verselloversello New
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by kryyst
    So with that in mind if you are on some version of highspeed. Disconnect the cat cable from the back of your machine so that it never activates the network connection and then see how long it takes to shut down.

    Could be coz the DHCP protocol attempts to renew an IP every 5 minutes. Windows has some real issues with TCP/IP...
  • HMOverclockerHMOverclocker The Hong Kong SAR, China
    edited December 2003
    Originally posted by Red Squirrel
    Are you using win2k? I find win2k to be slow at shutting down. I end up hitting refresh out of patiance. It just stays stuck at "saving your settings" for a long time. I don't know what settings have to be saved, because I would assume that when I change settings, they are changed right away.
    Red Squirrel,

    Try removing Hotfix sp4 Q329170 and you may find the system (Win2k) shuts down in 10 seconds.
  • Freshy-KFreshy-K in your head
    edited December 2003
    I'm using XP pro. I'm going to try that O'Reilly thing when I get back to my computer and then let you know if it worked.

    And for the DHCP thing, I'm on dialup so could that still be a problem?
  • NebulousNebulous New York, The Empire State
    edited December 2003
    Lots-o-tweeks here:

    http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

    Even w2k too :D
  • Freshy-KFreshy-K in your head
    edited January 2004
    Yay! Thanks topherice for the O'Reilly tips, they did the trick. Now my shutdown time is down to under 20 seconds!

    And thanks for the tweak site Nebulous!
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited January 2004
    bah, mine was already set to 0. i bet mine is that stupid ass norton firewall that i cant get rid of
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