Got a little problem, nothing huge ;)

Thanks chiskop :p It's a lot longer for me however (not forever) ;) :D :p
 
Before shutdown, nail *all* the apps running in background with taskman. Then time the shutdown again.

Apps can block a shutdown and then do their own a few seconds later if they still need to do/save something.

Maybe try deleting the page file too.
 
Conspirator said:
Before shutdown, nail *all* the apps running in background with taskman. Then time the shutdown again.

Apps can block a shutdown and then do their own a few seconds later if they still need to do/save something.

Maybe try deleting the page file too.
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Funny enough, it gives probably a 5 second increase in speed, haven't tried deleting the pagefile yet ;)
 
Ti's was mentioned on the first page DanH, it does nada ;)
 
Any updates on this? Did anyone find a solution? ;)
 
I tried but the only answer I could find was kill each process individually and try to see which is the culprit that way.
 
Thanks feo, I don't see how that's going to work, all the processes get killed by default at shutdown. The problem is the pc after the shutdown screen showed, goes black and stays active for at least a minute, the other day I waited 4 ;)
 
Not too sure about Vista, but a consistent startup/shutdown slowup problem is that where one has mapped drives and the mapping isn't available. If you have mapped drives, try disconnecting the mapping and see if it helps.
 
Stupid suggestion but are you on a LAN or do you have a printer installed with a memory card reader?

Pulling out the cable of either before shutting down or restarting might do the trick...I've seen it before. Then at least you know where your problem lies :) if it works that is !!

Check other peripherals and hardware just to be sure as well
 
feo said:
http://vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/
Sheesh everyone only gives the reg hack as a possible solution. If I come across anything new I'll post it here.
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Nope, it shows nothing in performance about shutdowns ;)
bekdik said:
Not too sure about Vista, but a consistent startup/shutdown slowup problem is that where one has mapped drives and the mapping isn't available. If you have mapped drives, try disconnecting the mapping and see if it helps.
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I don't have any drives mapped ;)
Jonny Two Shoes said:
Stupid suggestion but are you on a LAN or do you have a printer installed with a memory card reader?

Pulling out the cable of either before shutting down or restarting might do the trick...I've seen it before. Then at least you know where your problem lies :) if it works that is !!

Check other peripherals and hardware just to be sure as well
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I haven't tried pulling out the cable of the router, but it worked fine previously on Xp, so I don't know how it could be different, the printer is switched off most of the time ;)
 
Well its worth a go. Everything always works fine previously...lol thats always the case.

I had a user with XP who had the problem of extremely long reboots. I eventually figured out it was her printer causing the problem. Everytime I unplugged it then it was fine.

BTW do you have 64bit Vista? I see there is also a 32bit version if im not mistaken. Could be a dual-core issue, 64bit issue :/ who knows
 
Thanks to everyone who responded in this thread. I managed to fix the problem. I went to pcdoctors.co.za today and started a thread there, everyone was very helpful, but in the end I managed to fix it myself ;) :D :p

Anyways, I disabled some devices and I read an article that said the display driver is the last thing that Windows unloads. I decided to uninstall the Nvidia driver and installed the default Geforce 6600 driver which comes with Vista. I restarted, and voila!

I can't emphasize this enough, Nvidia sucks with creating drivers. I've used 3 official Nvidia drivers on this installation, one WHQL, and two Beta's, all of them had the same problems, the last Beta I installed less than 2 weeks ago, so this is an ongoing issue.

To make matters worse, Microsoft and Nvidia are in the same group of uselessness at the moment. My mobo has an Nvidia NIC built in. Windows Update tells me to install the new NIC driver (2007 version), upon restart there is no connection to my router, just the icon with a X through it. I managed to figure out last month that I need to use the default Vista (2006 version) for my NIC as well, so I don't know why I didn't think of the display driver again.

I will never, ever ever buy an Nvidia product again. Since I got this pc Nvidia with it's shoddy drivers has made my life hard.

Ciao ;)
tera
 
in all honesty ive never had a problem with Nvidia drivers, but then Im using XP on my gaming machine - however in general everyone seems to be releasing seriously rubbish drivers for Vista, which is why I'd want to wait for I decide to upgrade
 
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