At times my system shuts down slow, is this normal? Or is there something which should be installed?
djm123 0 Posting Whiz in Training
Suspishio 32 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
Much more information is required. Rep power 5 and you don't tell us about your system, what's running and what the shut down symptos are?
djm123 0 Posting Whiz in Training
what type of information do you need and there is absolutely no need to be rude
Suspishio 32 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
Well, for a start, I had to waste 1 post's worth of effort requesting the bleedin' obvious - which I stated in my earlier post:
Please describe your system.
What was running when it shut down
What are the symptoms when it shuts down
MatEpp 11 Junior Poster in Training
I would most likely say that it is just vista "optimizing" your hard-drive. Yet I haven't figured out if vista does this on boot up or shutdown.
Is it slower to shutdown when you have had your pc on for a while, like a few days, compared to being on for a day?
Suspishio 32 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
Perhaps I should have re-phrased my questions to you:
Based on past experience (with XP in this case), it matters what is running at slow closedown. Is there a common application or circumstance.? What had changed on your system (like new Anti-virus) when the symptom first appeared? There'll likely be an application or some function that is holding on for a timeout period to as remote link that is causing this.
Did you look in the "Performance Issues" section of the Control Panel Performance Information and Tools function?
Also a browse through the event logs will tell you what's going on during shut down.
Hope that helps.
Ole Raptor 19 Posting Whiz in Training
Some are jerks on here.
Leonle 0 Newbie Poster
You should increase your ram size!!!
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
After a certain point, increasing the RAM will increase boot/shutdown times.
vista is slow at shutting down because it has to save everything to disk. when its running it keeps what you are working on mainly in RAM, which is why it uses a lot. This makes the data faster to work with but it means that you must shut down properley so it can save it all back to the disk or else you will lose data.
its the same reason why its slow starting up, it caches your commonly used apps to RAM.
djm123 0 Posting Whiz in Training
You should increase your ram size!!!
THe computer is very new
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