Pancake Posted 3 March, 2011 Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Taking somewhere between 10-15 mins. Windows 7, Photoshop, Itunes, AVG, Office 2k3, Spotify, some Blackberry software. Nothing else on it; all background tasks seem to close before shutdown. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquidshokk Posted 3 March, 2011 Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Assuming you know how to, boot it up in safe mode and shut it down to see if it still happens. Will tell you if it's something running causing it or whether it is windows. You can then use MSconfig to disable most things from running from start up and repeating, gradually enabling processes and see when it happens again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 3 March, 2011 Author Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Assuming you know how to, boot it up in safe mode and shut it down to see if it still happens. Will tell you if it's something running causing it or whether it is windows. You can then use MSconfig to disable most things from running from start up and repeating, gradually enabling processes and see when it happens again. Yeah, did a safe mode run and it shut down quicker, but still what I would call slow (maybe 4-5 mins). Cleared out startup, looking at all the services/process. Nothing is springing to mind as causing the issue apart from iTunes at the moment (having a side issue with that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquidshokk Posted 3 March, 2011 Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Has it only recently started doing it? Is it on a decent pc? (Although seen windows 7 on old pc and shuts down quick-ish) I assume you've removed Itunes from starting up in MSconfig and retested incase that is doing something in the background? Wouldnt expect that to have an effect when shutting down from safemode though but you never know. Have you got another profile you can try? or create a new one and try shutting down from it in normal boot and safe mode to see if its a corrupt profile issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 3 March, 2011 Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Do you have any Microsoft updates that have been downloaded but not installed? We had similar with machines here..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 3 March, 2011 Share Posted 3 March, 2011 or try Regedit- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control and modify the WaitToKillServiceTimeout Value (just take a 0 off and tweak from there) This made a difference for the ones that still took 3 or 4 minutes to shutdown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquidshokk Posted 3 March, 2011 Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Do you have any Microsoft updates that have been downloaded but not installed? We had similar with machines here..... Did they not show as installing when shutting down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 3 March, 2011 Author Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Have you got another profile you can try? or create a new one and try shutting down from it in normal boot and safe mode to see if its a corrupt profile issue. Ohhh, interesting. The other profile on there shuts down in 30-40 seconds. Do you have any Microsoft updates that have been downloaded but not installed? We had similar with machines here..... Nope, none at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquidshokk Posted 3 March, 2011 Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Ohhh, interesting. The other profile on there shuts down in 30-40 seconds. Nope, none at all. Likely corrupt or something messing with it. If theres nothing to lose from it then I'd use another profile and delete that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 3 March, 2011 Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Did they not show as installing when shutting down? no, we use WSUS 'install on shutdown' and if the user just shuts down without doing it, it hangs like a beatch Agreed, sounds like your profile then. Delete the FAP folder and all should be ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 3 March, 2011 Author Share Posted 3 March, 2011 no, we use WSUS 'install on shutdown' and if the user just shuts down without doing it, it hangs like a beatch Agreed, sounds like your profile then. Delete the FAP folder and all should be ok Yeah, like thats going to be stored on the home PC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 3 March, 2011 Author Share Posted 3 March, 2011 Likely corrupt or something messing with it. If theres nothing to lose from it then I'd use another profile and delete that one. Not a bad idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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