Windows xp Won`t shut down

jamesy

Hi peeps i am running windows xp and lately it will not shut down don`t no the cause of this can anybody help please!

jonesMUFCforever

Do a CTRL and Alt - are there any programmes running in the background?
Have you scanned for any nasties? Is your Anti virus and firewalls up to date and configured correctly?

crox

Sometimes a defrag can fix this

edit:

You might want to set your virtual memory to not use a paging file first, then reset it to System managed after.

BritBrat

Sometimes a defrag can fix this

Just what I was going to say, also I think Microsoft have a patch for slow shutdown.

startrekker

Nice little link HERE with plenty of advice. All the above posts are pretty good advice but there is a host of other issues known as well

jamesy

Tried all of the above still no joy, but can shutdown using ctrl and alt
then shutdown from task manager

Vomityspice

Just hold in the power button for 5 seconds and it will shut down.

The reason it isn't working correctly is difficult to diagnose (you could use msconfig as a starting point) but if all that's a foreign language leave well alone.......

missile

I had a similar problem. Spy-bot search and destroy and AVG Anti-spy removed some crap and sytem worked much quicker and XP shutdown worked fine.

cirrus18

It is a known problem with Windows XP and Microsoft has brought out a fix. User Profile Hive Cleanup Service

It worked for me when I had the same problem.

download and install from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en

shown73

Just a wee word of caution to the above. This fix from Microsoft requires that Windows Genuine Advantage be run first to establish the validity of the users software. So, anyone with a dodgy copy could end up dis-advantaged!