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Win XP SP3 Sutdown Issue

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by trapatonni

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The problem I have is when Im shutting the my PC. Its not that it takes long to shutdown just for the shutdown dialog box to appear, when I click shutdown then its shutdown ok. It must take about 5 mins to appear.Any suggestions. Thanks

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by older mycroft

How many background processes do you have running at any one time? Each of these has to shutdown (one at a time) as part of the shutdown process.

You might have your system set to clear all caches and pagefile before shutting down.

You could check to see how fragmented the hard drive is - a highly fragmented hard drive will slow the process considerably.

Also check how much free space is left on the drive - you should have at least 15% to be safe.

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