Slow shut down

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Budzman

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All of the sudden my computer takes a long time to shut down. I havn't installed any new programs or anything, I did recently switch from a 9800XT to a Geforce 6800gt video card but after switching it was still working fine.

Now all of the sudden it takes prolly well over a minute for it to shut down. It just sits at the "Windows is Shutting Down" screen.

I have a 3.8ghz P4, 10k rpm sata raid, 1024mb ram, 6800 gt.

I use WinXP with SP1. I ran Norton to check for viruses and SpyBot and everything came up ok.
 
Are you running alot of background processes? Do you have multiple NICS? I know that I have had much the same trouble in the past for these reasons. Also, you can improve your shutdown speed by doing some registry editing. I'll leave registry editing up to what you google, as I'm not interested in giving you info that leads to a borked windows install.
 
I dont run anything in background except for the Nvidia utility. I only have 1 NIC that is on the mobo ( IC7-G Max2 ).
 
Check in the Service Manager and disable any unecessary services. See if that helps.

Dario
 
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