2006-08-04 16:49:53 · 5 answers · asked by ANITA R 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Slow shutting down means an application, either one you loaded yourself or one windows loads, is causing the issue. Windows has trouble getting that program to stop. It could be anything. Could be a virus, but doesnt necessarily have to be as it could be a driver. Best bet would be to exit all applications you have loaded yourself before powering down, then telling the computer to shut off. If this helps, then you know that it is one of the programs you have run yourself and not a system file Windows loads. If it doesnt help, then it may be a system file and to discern which one would take a long time and you would be better served backing up all your important data and reinstalling Windows and installing the drivers for your specific hardware and then installing your applications and games. After they are done, you then restore your backed up files to your My Documents or wherever. Hopefully this fixes the issue, if not then it could be hardware and that brings up a whole slew of tests and such to determine whice device could be failing.
2006-08-04 17:01:10 · answer #1 · answered by ghowriter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most likely a device that isn't responding when told to shut down. Alot of computers have background apps running click on the run button and type in msconfig. Click on the startup tab and this will list on the programs that run everytime you start up your computer. Most of them do not need to be running.
Programs association with printers, scanner, digital cameras, itunes, quick time, adobe reader, don't need to run in the background unless you use them all the time. Your antivirus, firewall, spyware programs do need to run at start up.
If you don't recongnize the program that is running look it up on yahoo and most likely you will find a website that tells you what it is and you can decide if you need it to run all the time.
On my computer there are 28 programs listed when I click on the startup tab but I have uncheck 22 of them and my startup is fast and my computer shuts down quickly.
2006-08-05 00:03:28 · answer #2 · answered by Fremen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What operating system? Windows or Mac? do you have any defragmenting or RAM saving programs that run automatically? Have you virus scanned? Do you have a virus protection program like Norton? When you shut down, are you shutting down through the menu or manually by holding down the off button? Sorry to ask so many questions, but I do tech support and these are just the beginning questions. Sounds like you have something incompatable or a virus or trojan or spyware.
2006-08-04 23:58:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My older computer would do this all the time, sometimes it wouldn't even shut down. You computer must be missing lots of files it needs to run, the only way i fixed it was flushing the computer out, and re-installing windows, and now my computer runs better than ever!! hope this helps
--Rich
2006-08-04 23:55:24 · answer #4 · answered by Richard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
click on start /run type in the box
msconfig
click ok
click on the services tab
look in the list for
imapi cd-burning com
Distributed Link Tracking Client
un-tick the box on them 2
click on apply & ok
your have to restart the pc when your back at the desktop
everything will run fine
2006-08-04 23:55:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋