Why does my PC take so long to shut down? How to fix it?

CCleaner is FREE as mentioned. It is available from both download.com as well as filehippo.com. It does a very good job on both XP and Vista machines.

the two programs listed above are free if you download the corect things. i also highly recomend both of them

CCleaner is available from ccleaner.com 'free'...

Advance window care is available from iobit.com...

BOTH are available 'FREE' from 'Cnet DOWNLOAD.com.

A good tip is not to have more than a couple of applications or programs running at any-one-time...As your computer must close them all before it can shutdown or restart...

Where are you looking to find these two great FREEWARE programs not FREE?
Look at cnet's download.com or majorgeeks.com ,for FREE! Now IObit the company that puts out Advanced WindowsCare v2 Personal does have a Pro version it sells but the personal version is free.

They were both free for me

if you would please insert the web page addess link in whole -- that they all seem to need help in finding -then
"would that be just to simple ?"
as it would avoid a lot of confusion

>I looked at both of the "FREE" software mentioned - neither one are
>free - so that negates everything else that was said.

Are you in reference to CCleaner and AWC? Both are free and I use them as well as the Iobit smart defrag.

Hi,

I have been using the two programs (CCleaner and Advanced Windows Care) stated in the post for couple years and both of them are 100% free. These are simply amazing programs and do excellent job. I am highly staisfied with the performance and i recommend it to every Windows users.

Please download the softwares and enjoy them. Anyone who is still shaky about the free versions, Please ask for further help.

Zahid Sheikh

Here is a link to the page where you can download CCleaner (look for the big green arrow to the right): http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

I have bypassed the screen where there is an option to DONATE some money for this freeware software. If you find that you come to depend on CCleaner, then please think about donating some money to make sure it continues to exist: http://www.ccleaner.com/download


I have been using CCleaner for several months now and highly recommend it. I find it to be very useful and fast. I also use the uninstall option - it seems to do a more thorough job than Vista. I am one of those computer geek engineers so I download all kinds of stuff.

As a general rule, whenever you find yourself in the midst of having to accept some "offer", you are in the wrong place. Just stop. Close the screen. Start over. There are many download sites that are reliable. I use Tucows, Snapfiles, CNet (where you are now). These sites are above-board and offer ratings and reliable downloads.

There are lots of sites that advertise "free" programs that end up running some test that always tells you that if you don't buy their software to fix the million problems they found, then your computer will grow legs and rampage through your house destroying life as we know it. Resist the urge to click on these advertisements. Sometimes you can be searching for some product and think you are going one place when you are, in reality, being sent to another. You get hijacked to some marketing or phishing site. To cut down on this, add the home page of the site you trust to your favorites folder and use that link.


Also, please do not run out and pay for some program that makes lots of promises. See if there is a comparable freeware program available. Check out what other people have to say about a program you are thinking about buying. You will save a lot of money and a boatload of time and frustration trying to undo the problems some badly written, over-priced software caused.

PapaGus labors under a misconception that these products are not free and that therefore anything the previous poster said is invalid. Logically, PapaGus's inference is wrong. But that isn't the point of my post.

Both CC Cleaner and Advanced Windows Care Personal come in a free version (with minor limitations placed on them, from my perspective) and paid versions.

I have had and used the free versions for over a year, and i'm always amzazed at the amount of junk they scrape off the computer. I always download updates for these programs when i'm notified they're available, and i have never had a computer problem that i could trace to either program.

I have also downloaded and use the (free) MS Windows Defender and let it scan away once a week in the wee hours of the morning. For general protection, I'm currently using Trend Micro Internet Security, which has efficient firewalls and spam filters that keep most junk off.

Until recently, i used two free programs, Spybot Search and Destroy (it solicits contributions but that's all) and Lavasoft's Ad-Aware--the free version, not the paid one. Both did a great job of keeping malware and adware off the computer.

The one paid program i have used for years is Diskkeeper, which i find does a better job keeping disk fragmentation under control.

Having said all that, the one semi-expert task that can help operating performand and shut-down speed, is to go to the control panel and work through services, inactivating those that aren't needed; this isn't a task for a novice, though.

hope this helps.

CCleaner is free with donations suggested. The download site is:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Advanced WindowsCare is FREE for personal use. The following version can be downloaded from CNET:
http://www.download.com/Advanced-WindowsCare-Personal/3000-2086_4-10407614.html?part=dl-AdvancedW&subj=uo&tag=button

There is also a 'Professional' version which is NOT free, but the 'Personal' version works well. No one program will work for everyone and there are some excellent suggestions in the posts below. These are the simplest, automated ways to solve this kind of problem and do not require technical expertise. Even so, any time you are dealing with tricky areas, such as editing the registry, you should set a system restore point (both programs do this before running)so that if your system crashes during the 'repair' it can be restored.

mate it is a free version im using and i love it. does a great job and ill keep it till the cows come home. i have nod32 antivirus and use just the two and im clean as a whistle here. never a problem with bugs or viruses. and i use the V2 personal every day to clean it up. works wonders.

Check my previous post please... Free

CCCleaner on the Wdoze machines I support. It is free. You can find it from the c|Net downloads section or on the net. If you Google it the first three or four sites are scumbags that try to charge you for it. The program is free. The sites are gouging you.

BTW it does work for Vista and XP.

You should be looking for Advanced WindowsCare Personal not Advanced WindowsCare Professional.

You should look again both of those programs are free I've used advanced windows care for 3 years it is free as for cccleaner its free as well. Just read before you click advanced windows care doe's have a paid version but its not needed get the personal version!

Both come in free versions:
http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10315544.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10876371
http://www.download.com/Advanced-WindowsCare-Personal/3000-2086_4-10407614.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10890240

And as far as I know, CCleaner doesn't even come in a paid version. The vendor's site does encourage you to donate, but it's not like anyone is putting a gun to your head!

Papagus,

Both Ccleaner & Advanced Windows Care Personal are free to use. I don't know why you think they aren't free, but I've been using them for some time and they are free. You'd better go back and look at what you thought was for purchase and pick them up. They do work well.

If you go to download.com and type in the program you want and then search for the personal version. Of course they will advertise the pro version and you sometimes have to search for the free version. This is why if you want a free version it is easiest and best to go to www.downloads.com and load it from there. Actually you can find most any type of free or program that are for sale plus the ratings if you just go there.

i tried out a couple of these programs and they really work great

would you mind sending me the links to these web places you gave me .
thank you!

Starting-up and shutting down is taking long in Windows.
I used to use Linux since 1995; at that time it was not easy to install, I was happy to get help with it. Nowadays Linux is very good in installation and within less than an hour you have a fully installed computer (OS + many applications); Windows and Mac cannot cope with that. But Linux uses in most cases a PC as platform, I decided to change to Mac. Since over a year a Macbook, which was more and more confiscated by my daughter. So I went for a Macbook Pro.
Starting-up the Macbook is in about 30-45 seconds and shutting down costs <10seconds.
AND you don't have to use the START button to shutdown like in Windows.

I'm now busy with installing VMWare Fusion and MS-DOS, Windows and Linux (probably Ubuntu or Xubuntu). The VWWare was done within 5 minutes, but the MS-DOS and Windows give me some headaches. I want to re-use some old programs, like WordPerfect 5.1 in which I made a big report for school. It took MS-Word for Windows many years to be able to do the same.
Sorry for the variety of subjects, but maybe it might help people who are strugling with Windows and thinking of other platforms.
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Hi Mate,

I have CCleaner which is FREE but you say it's CCCleaner ? People have also posted replies to say that CCCleaner and the other software are not FREE. Maybe you meant CCleaner ?

Thanks.

What is your opinion of the ccCleaner register fix?

None of these downloads in which you suggest are FREE! Oh they are free to download and scan but then in order to repair the issues one must purchase the program! Is there truly any complete FREE registry cleaners in which one can download and NOT have to pay for the fixes??????????????????

christopher hawley need to download the free versions of CC Cleaner and Advanced Windows Care Personal. Not the paid vesions, but the free ones. Both programs are fully functional, make all the fixes they find and don't expire after a trial period. Check your sources before you post, please.

... Offer your top responder as someone who advocates going to spyware/malware websites to get supposedly free programs to fix someone's other problem. Seems like it's trading colon cancer for a brain tumor.

I looked up the freeware programs in your latest recommended reply. and both were flagged as bad places to go.. within seconds I had porn popunders

I thought better of you...

I wrote a post that should have gone to you but ended up about 2 or 4 posts down the thread. Could you check it out? I can't believe that I screwed this up......well.....when I think about it, yes I can. LOL.

Note: It is not free. It's only a trial, and only takes care of the first 6 items that it lists.

CCleaner is good; I've used it for over a year and always use it before shutting down, as well as periodically thruout the day before I take a break. I also bring up AVG Free to run scans periodically, as I also do with SpyBot.

I've also tried installing Norton Internet Security and tried running the scan, also when I take a break from the PC.

My system also is still slow when shutting down, after trying all these software. It takes about 1-2 minutes before it completely shuts down, and this is AFTER I've shut down everything, including any Windows Explorer (of folders).

Worst of all, after following some of the advice in removing some programs at startup time in order to speed it up as well as reduce RAM usage, I cannot now update some of my web files using Microsoft Office Live! I've tried looking at the differences between this PC, and one that works, and cannot see the difference!