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There are many reasons for the computer shutdown to become slow. The main reasons lies behind the operating system used and the way things are configured. The slow shutdown is being caused by a program or process that is taking an unusually long time to get shutdown. The easiest way to determine which one it is would be to perform a clean boot to verify that your shutdown speed is normal with minimal programs/processes running, and then to re-enable them 1 at a time and going through shutdowns until you find the culprit.
Possible reasons and different ways to get rid of Slow Shutdown
- Incompatible hardware : Device compatibility with the hardware can be a cause of the shutdown time being high. If you have just installed a new device and the computer becomes slow while shutting down, then this might be the cause.
- System loaded with many processes : Running software programs may consume system resources.
- If there are quite a number of processes running, then it will take some time before every one of them is terminated.
- Conflicting applications or software: The culprit software should either be updated or replaced with newer versions to get rid of long shutdown time.
- Viruses and trojans can also be the cause. Use a good security software.
- System pagefile : System make sure that the system pagefile is wiped clean when this system shuts down. One can remove the pagefile deletion at shutdown. This is recommended only when the computer is safe from vulberabilities.
Further steps to raise the speed of Shutdown
Clean-boot troubleshooting is designed to identify a performance problem. To perform clean-boot troubleshooting, you must take a number of actions, and then restart the computer after each action. In Windows XP certain registry keys maintains the the value of how long windows will hold before going for shut shutting down of all running programs and application services after the shutdown button is pressed.
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