[GeekyGamer]

Windows 7 takes about 5 minutes to shut down.

It goes; logging off, shutting down and then stays at shutting down for about 5 minutes EVERY TIME.

I have disabled services in msconfig I do not need.

I have changed wait to kill service to 2000 in regedit.

I have 6GB of RAM.

I have no problem with startup, that starts up in under a minute from entering log in password.


I will provide information you need, just ask.

Please can you help? Thanks.

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Good you have performed the wait to kill option in the registry.

Stop everything running in your system tray, like antivirus or anything else that appear there. Also unplug any peripherals
like gaming controllers, webcam or USB sticks.
If Windows shuts down normally you know its one of these programs or devices that is causing the problem.
Another thing to do is to start in Safe mode and see how shutdown behaves from there.
Again, if its quick then the cause is definitely a device or program.


OR
You can try performing the wait to kill process again by changing the value to a higher number than 2000, however the value should not increase more than 20000, It has to be within 20000 and more than 2000. Check if it help's.
1. Click on Start.
2. Open Run command and type regedit.
3. In the regedit go at the following Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l

4. In the right pane, right click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout and click on Modify.
5. Type in a number between 2000-20000 (2-20 seconds) and click on OK.
6. Now Close regedit.
7. Restart your Pc.

And try running an anti virus program If nothing work's

[Pcs365]

Good you have performed the wait to kill option in the registry.

Stop everything running in your system tray, like antivirus or anything else that appear there. Also unplug any peripherals
like gaming controllers, webcam or USB sticks.
If Windows shuts down normally you know its one of these programs or devices that is causing the problem.
Another thing to do is to start in Safe mode and see how shutdown behaves from there.
Again, if its quick then the cause is definitely a device or program.


OR
You can try performing the wait to kill process again by changing the value to a higher number than 2000, however the value should not increase more than 20000, It has to be within 20000 and more than 2000. Check if it help's.
1. Click on Start.
2. Open Run command and type regedit.
3. In the regedit go at the following Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l

4. In the right pane, right click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout and click on Modify.
5. Type in a number between 2000-20000 (2-20 seconds) and click on OK.
6. Now Close regedit.
7. Restart your Pc.

And try running an anti virus program If nothing work's

[GeekyGamer]

Okay so, I don't have any perephirals aside from mouse, keyboard and headphones so I didnt unplug them, I disabled all taskbar programs including antivirus/firewall. No change at all.

I tried changing wait to kill, I changed it to 6000, no change, not faster nor slower.

And finally I ran an anti-virus scan which was clean.

I am really annoyed at how it is taking so long, I am out of ideas, do you have any more?

[Broni]

Go Start>Run (Start Search in Vista), type in:
msconfig
Click OK (hit Enter in Vista).

Click on Startup tab.
Click Disable all
IMPORTANT! In case of laptop, make sure, you do NOT disable any keyboard, or touchpad entries.

Click Services tab.
Put checkmark in Hide all Microsoft services
Click Disable all.

Click OK.
Restart computer in Normal Mode.

NOTE. If you use different firewall, than Windows firewall, turn Windows firewall on, just for this test, since your regular firewall won't be running.
If you use Windows firewall, you're fine.

Same problem while shutting down?

Edited by Broni, 18 June 2010 - 11:51 PM.

[GeekyGamer]

yes it is still taking ages. I tried it in safe mode, same problem

[Broni]

At this point, it's a puzzler for me...

[TheWhiteRose000]

Use CCleaner, to clean the registry.
It will take a few scans to get every issue.
Then try shutting it down and booting it up and try it one more time after that.

:3

[Onaipian]

Use CCleaner, to clean the registry.
It will take a few scans to get every issue.
Then try shutting it down and booting it up and try it one more time after that.

We don't recommend the use of Registry Cleaners here. Deleting the wrong key can make a system unusable and there is no strong evidence that supports overall performance increase.


Back to Malware Removal forums for me.

[TheWhiteRose000]

D:

Works for me all the time.
And you can backup your registry.
It took my shutdown time and boot up time from about.

59 seconds to 40
and
60 down to about 40 also.

:3

Its now a standard thing I do on all the comps I fix.
give's it a nice boost.


And it only selectively picks the things it will clean.
Such as installed program, program fix's if its missing things.

ect ect.
:3

It doesn't do the ENTIRE registry.
That would take forever.

o.0

Edited by TheWhiteRose000, 27 June 2010 - 07:39 PM.

[GeekyGamer]

I used CCleaner no change

Is it worth mentioning that hibernating takes only around 30-40 secs where as shutdown takes about 3-5 mins

[Lister192065]

Try the advise here, some you will have alrady done:

http://social.answer...c4-39c60e218130