windows XP taking 10 mins to shut down

[yoda]

I don't know why, but XP starts up real quick, IE within 30 seconds....

But when I click Start > Shutdown it sits their for over 5 mins befor it displays the buttons for shutdown, standby or restart... and then when you click shutdown or restart it takes 10 mins to shutdown....

Their is very little hard drive activity, and it don't matter what I got open....

Any ideas?

 

[iCraig]

Run Windows Update.
Run a scan disk.
Remove any unwanted programs.
Run a virus and spyware scan
Run a good defrag program such as Diskeeper.


Check what services are running by going to Start > Run > services.msc

Check for any known resource hogs by Googling their names.

 

[rich_g85]

Have a look in your event log - there may be something relating to a registry hive which couldn't be saved during logoff, usually caused by a service running as a user?

The event source is Userenv and it'll look something like this:

Windows saved user [username] registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

 

[mattyrigby00]

not sure if it does anything to do with shutdowns maybe just startups but try bootvis (google it, its from microsoft but no longer on their site), or disable every startup process except needed ones in msconfig, if it works then turn them on 1 at a time until u find whats causing it