Really slow shutdown

G18241 · 3 Jul 2007 at 09:12

New build PC now seems to take ages to shutdown / restart

Its really quick at starting up, and im not too bothered about it shutting down slowly, its just when i reset i generally just have to keep my finger on the power button due too it taking forever to get past the "windows is shutting down" part

helmet · 3 Jul 2007 at 09:22

Post a pic of the taskmanager that is running on your system when idle.
Sort it on memory usage.

Nefarious · 3 Jul 2007 at 09:55

What version of Windows are you running (I'm assuming, given the area of the forum, that it is Windows you're asking about)

G18241 · 3 Jul 2007 at 09:57

Windows XP Home Edition

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Nefarious · 3 Jul 2007 at 10:10

Have you tried the tweaking guide, spybot, defrag (usual suspects)??

G18241 · 3 Jul 2007 at 10:58

only did a defrag the other day, just done another one and its fine now :confused:

the gf must have been installing / uninstalling loads of stuff or something

Nefarious · 3 Jul 2007 at 11:03

Yay! I felt like a bit of a tard posting that but it's best to try the easy things first rather than spending hours mucking about with the registry

helmet · 3 Jul 2007 at 15:38

Getting a good few reports of that Realtek Control Panel slowing things up (RTHDCPL.exe):

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...xAj&q=RTHDCPL+slow+shutdown&btnG=Search&meta=

Clean out the system tray mate, right click and exit. Remove all but your firewall.
Wait a few mins, then try a shutdown.

If it goes shuts down quicker then you need to get rid of one of those tray programs or find an updated version that does not cause the shutdown error.

Just for the hell of it, when did you last update the Realtek panel?

Cheers.

Magister · 3 Jul 2007 at 18:19

Apply these reg tweaks and your comp will shut down instantly:

Open REGEDIT and navigate to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\’
Highlight the ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ value.
Set it to 500

Now highlight the ‘HungAppTimeout’ value
Set it to 500 also.

Open REGEDIT and navigate to ‘HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop’
Highlight the ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ value.
Set it to 500
Now highlight the ‘HungAppTimeout’ value.
Set it to 500 also.

Open REGEDIT and navigate to

‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\’

Highlight the value ‘WaitToKillServiceTimeout’

Change this value to 500

Open REGEDIT and navigate to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop’

Highlight the value ‘AutoEndTasks.’

Change the value to ‘1′

Of course this cures the symptom, not the problem.

mattyrigby00 · 3 Jul 2007 at 18:24

use msconfig to disable none important processes. google the process name to find out what it is.

G18241 · 3 Jul 2007 at 18:44

seems to be sorted now

there is never much on my system tray really, i dont like them there lol

cheers though