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Win 7 Shut down
« on: January 19, 2011, 09:13:42 AM »
So I have been searching the net for an answer to this. Everytime I shut down my computer, whether it be W7, Vista, laptop or desktop I always get the force shutdown screen. Some are saying its a specific file for a model of creative sound card. This is not my case. Others are saying with a simple registry tweak you can make it shut down faster...but that window will still popup. I'd like to find out what is hanging and get it to shut down when it is supposed to. I would think it would be explorer.exe that is doing this somewhere but my screen is always blank. Anyone have any ideas. Going to continue to search. I will post back if I find anything.

This bit is interesting. It may help to solve or at least help figure out what is hanging:

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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2011, 10:13:31 AM »
Having any specific programs running that need accepting to close (I mean those annoying popups that get displayed when you attempt to close a program)? Does Windows give any specific information?
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2011, 10:26:50 AM »
No W7 does not give any info as to what is slowing things down. I have went into msconfig though and made a few changes. Albeit these are for startup but...well I got a bit side tracked, lol. I disabled a few programs that start up on boot. I also went into the boot option in msconfig and then to advanced options and selected the checkbox labeled Number of processors, and changed it from 1 to 2. So all that sped things up a bit for startup which is always good. Now I have to get back to the original problem, no more getting side tracked, lol.
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2011, 11:03:45 AM »
Hm, I need to set which programs start on setup too...

I don't see any problems then.
« Last Edit: January 19, 2011, 11:05:59 AM by Yoshi2889 »
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2011, 11:30:11 AM »
Have you tried this Bigguy?

Says it works with  Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7
(Not tested)



http://download.cnet.com/Auto-Shutdown/3000-2381_4-10640426.html

PS. I have just d/lled and installed it on my XP SP2 machine and have to say it has never shutdown so quicky in it's life!

PPS: I had to remove it's shortcut from the startup menu to prevent it starting with windows..apart from that no problems so far..
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2011, 12:26:53 PM »
Is that just to schedule a shut down or does it actually shut things down faster. ???
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2011, 12:46:05 PM »
Quote from: bigguy on January 19, 2011, 12:26:53 PM
Is that just to schedule a shut down or does it actually shut things down faster. ???
I think both ???

If I recall correctly, there was a tool to (almost) instantly shut down your system...
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2011, 12:57:58 PM »
I will check it out...if I can turn off scheduling and just use it to speed up shutdown then that would be great. :) Still would like to figure out what is not closing right. I might try that one registry tweak I posted to show all info on bootup and shutdown as well.

EDIT: No way to turn of scheduling. Every function like restart hibernate etc has to have a shedule turned on. Thanks for that alahuin but not quite what I am looking for. :)
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2011, 05:19:16 PM »
You know what Bigguy I've been having the same issue.  Mine acts as though it went into sleep mode..My bf says it has to do with microsoft updates and them messing around with things.


If I figure anything out I will let you know...
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2011, 06:37:27 PM »
I think what your bf is referring to is when it has to shut down from after windows update. I am talking just a normal shutdown...post back though if you do hear anything. :)
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2011, 09:46:23 PM »
I have the same issue but it is never the same program, causing it to prompt for "force shutdown" as sometimes it will tell you the program still running and sometimes it does not. I believe it is compatibility issue with some of the programs and win7. I do wonder if it is just x64 machines or both?
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2011, 12:04:29 AM »
Could be compatibility, never thought of that. I'm still looking into things and tryin what I can. :)
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2011, 07:46:22 AM »
It might be one of you programs in the system tray, I know MSN can make it do this.
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2011, 09:33:36 AM »
I'll check that as well. :)
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2011, 09:43:22 PM »
So far I see Windows Defender and searchindexer as being a problem when shutting down along with malwarebytes I do believe.
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2011, 10:25:01 PM »
Using resmon, which is resource monitor and it can be typed in at the search bar in the start menu. If anything turns red in their then it should be further investigated. On bootup for me it was sidebar.exe that slowed me down a bit. I have not tested shut down but in the search indexer options I also stoped the search from indexing any mail from Windows mail...that also helped a bit. I will report back soon. :)
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Re: Win 7 Shut down
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2011, 05:48:21 PM »
This still happens a bit but not as much as before. Ayone have any other ideas I can try. ???
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