sometimes my pc wont shut down is it common?

Question

i keep waiting for a long long long time but nothing it says windows is shutting down even the mouse pointer moves

Answer 1

If your computer is not shutting down, you should hit Ctrl Alt Delete and check aplications and see if anything is not shutting down or not responding. also check your processes to make sure that your not running anything that your not aware of that might not like the idea of shutting down run your antivirus and defrag your hard drive. If this does not help you might think about backing up all your data and I MEAN ON DISK! then reload your computer. If your running a Dell or off the shelf brand of computer you might consider taking it to a shop and having all the garbage they load on it taken off and having windows loaded from a retail disk , it will work with your key and you will be without all of Their favorite software! good luck I hope this helped.

Answer 2

This usually happens if there is a program that won't close - so windows waits for it to respond - sometimes indefinitely...it could be on all night.

It could also be from some corrupted file. Try defragging:
Click Start button
select All Programs
select Accessories
select System Tools
select Disk Defragmenter

You used to have to run scan disk first, but they removed that...or rather, combined the two

Answer 3

It sounds like a software program is refusing to close. You can try to force programs to close at shutdown.

Tip 6: Force unresponsive applications to close at shutdown.

When it comes to balky PCs, few things annoy us more than the moment when we try to shut down Windows and it tells us it can't because some crashed application isn't responding, and that we have to do it ourselves by clicking the End Now button.

This registry hack changes that. Here's how it works.

1. Launch RegEdit (select Start > Run, type regedit and click OK) and browse to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

2. Find the string called AutoEndTasks. Right-click it, select Modify from the pop-up menu, and change the data value from 0 to 1. (If you can't find this string, create it by selecting Edit > New > String Value and set the data value to 1.)

3. Close RegEdit and reboot.

Answer 4

it really is shows something on the exhibit screen is hopeful! Any probability you may try it with yet another exhibit screen to rule out it is merely your exhibit screen breaking down? once you assert it makes an rather good type of noise, might want to that be a chain of beeps? even as pcs start up, they do a speedy self-try wherein they verify necessities like reminiscence. diverse numbers of beeps recommend diverse elements of the gadget have failed the try. And to make it even more effective complicated - diverse motherboards/chipsets use diverse beeping codes... so once you recognize what type of motherboard you've, you may search for for the beep codes. besides the beeps, it is continually a good theory to unplug as a lot as a possibility, periffials besides as on the interior your computing device. merely go away the necessities: (customary) not person-friendly force, pics card & exhibit screen, keyboard. If it boots like that, start up putting issues back one-by technique of-one and be conscious what causes the difficulty.

Answer 5

theres some app running somewhere doing that , or spyware, or a driver ... try disabling ur internet connection before shutting down and see if thats it ... then go from there.

Answer 6

It happens sometimes. Especially during a session that was "resumed".

Answer 7

Yes, I wish I knew the answer!

Answer 8

REPROGRAM...