PC Slow Shut Down

tak

Recently my PC is awful slow about shutting itself down.
Is this the beginning of the end to something ?

Auvers

How long is the operating system installed? have you checked for spyware? do you have a lot of programs running in your taskbar? any chance of your specs?

But after asking you all that it does sound like your PC needs a simple reinstall.

tak

How long is the operating system installed ?
Not long 2 months say. It was a drive image of an install done 12 months ago on the old drive.

Have you checked for spyware?
Yes - she's clean.

Do you have a lot of programs running in your taskbar?
Not too many - Anti-virus, softphone, LAN connection and messenger (for email alerts only).

Any chance of your specs?
Dell Dim 4300 (Dec/2001, XP SP2 Home, Pentium 4/1.6 GHz, 256 MB nVidia, Maxtor 40 GB HD - the rest on attached getsysteminfo file)

But after asking you all that it does sound like your PC needs a simple reinstall.
Oh no !

Auvers

Ok maybe a clean install is a bit drastic considering its only a two month install, it does sound like a TSR programme is not closing down when you reboot so maybe d/load StartupList and go through the programs you have running in the background and disable them until you find the culprit.

Mr. Presentable

This can happen if a device the OS expects to be there is missing. (I had a USB modem on my PC for a while, and then unplugged it. PC was very slow to shut down until I removed it from Device Manager.) What may be happening is Windows is trying to shut it down but can't find it.

tak

I notice that my immoveable files are - most unusually in my experience - in 2 blocks.
I always assumed that these were important system files whose addresses were kept fixed for convenient location . . .

Is there any (dangerous) significance to their being in 2 distinct blocks?

tak

I mean this thing in the attached image.

Is it odd for immoveable files to be in 2 green blocks rather than 1 ?

Soundman

tak wrote:

I mean this thing in the attached image.

Is it odd for immoveable files to be in 2 green blocks rather than 1 ?

Nah that is perfectly fine going on my own experience. Mine have always been like that and on any computers I have been fixing up.

tak

But after a fresh system reinstall - isn't it usually in one green block, close to the left side of the defrag disk range ?
Always so with my installs and those of a new manuf installed system I've seen . . .

Soundman

Last fresh install I did with XP was about 3 months ago. I seem to remember there being the two seperate blocks of immovable files. One near the beginning of the disk representation and one about two-thirds to three quarters of the way along.Second block being the largest.

tak

Did the dreaded reinstall.
Slow shut down problem gone.
Green unmoveable files in one block now, too.