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Vista shuts down s...l...o...w...l...y after it's been on for a few hours on my machine.
Gateway GT5654
AMD Athlon dual core 5600+
3 gigs RAM
Any ideas? The 'puter has been in use for all of 2 weeks. Antivirus/antispyware scans (in the computer and online) are all negative.
Paul
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Use http://itsvista.com/2007/03/tasklist/ TASKLIST to see what's different from a fast shutdown to a slow one. What's in one list and not the other?
In addition to Bob's good suggestion, I use the chart in the link below to eliminate unnecessary services.. Although you can make some really "safe" tweaks by matching the settings in the "Safe" column of the chart, you might try a few of the other "Tweaked" removals as well.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm
Hope this helps.
Grif
I have had the same problem, something weird must happen after Vista runs for a few hours because it has taken up to 30 m inutes to shut down my computer before. I don't know what to do about it, usually I give up after 5 minutes and pull the power cord after its logged off. Not a full solution but a really good band-aid solution, but possibly bad for the computer.
I have the same problem, about 2/5 times I go to shut down my computer at night it is still trying to shut down the next morning, and then when I go to turn it back on when i get home in the afternoon it won't after 3 hour and it takes several tries to get it to turn on. What is wrong? My computer works fine when its on its just going off and turning on
Go to Control Panel- Power Option- Chose : what closing the lid does. Good luck
Every time I see my niece's computer it has this problem - either slow or no shutdown - and I've thought I had it fixed 7 or 8 times. My latest "fix" involved removing the SD card as I had noticed that the virus scanner hung up when it tried to access the card. I wasn't using Readyboost as I had already suspected it months ago as a problem. I would not necessarily assume the problem is with the av scanner alone - possibly Windows Defender or other security software might also cause this type of lockup when accessing the SD card.
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