Shutting down a PC.

[Balmoral Green]

OK, how come you boot up, check your e-mail, surf the web a little, and thats it, you shut down the PC and it doesnt take very long. But other times you do the same thing and it takes ages and ages, but you have only had the same applications running and nothing else as when it shuts down very quickly.

[fazz81]

I presume your running Windows, if so it could be doing some house keeping...such as installing updates etc.

[greenlandy]

It's female!!!













Grabs coat and runs for cover

[mcflurry]

Maybe it has some spyware or similar that is stopping the machine from closing down?

[Plotloss]

Most likely explanation is that Windows is doing some housekeeping.

Depending on how you shut down Windows does different things. Nothing to worry about I would suggest.

[Shirkin]

Was thinking this just myself. Most odd, my machine is just the same.

>> Edited by Shirkin on Tuesday 12th July 17:49

[RameshUK]

Maybe the websites ?

Certain websites can cause slow downs.

Some websites with alot of animations video content can slow down your pc.

** To test this**

Start your web browser
visit www.google.com do
a couple of searchs (but dont click any pages) then shut down.

Repeat again - is the shut down time the same ?

Now visit your usual websites /web mail pages and then shutdown. What about now ?

Good Luck !

[LaurenceFrost]

It pretty much depends on how much of your page file you use.

If you use loads of it then the Windows files that are needed to shut Windows down must be paged back into memory from the hard disk swap file (virtual memory).

You use your page file more by running memory-hungry applications simultaniously.

[zumbruk]

Is the Windows file system cached or journalled in any way? if there's a fair amount of cache to write out, that could take a while, too.

[Balmoral Green]

Thanks.