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    vista takes for ever to shut down or reboot lateley

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by pcteck, Jan 5, 2008.

  1. pcteck

    pcteck Notebook Enthusiast

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    i dont know what happened but lateley my acer 5920g takes for ever to shut down and reboot usually i have to hold the power button down for 5 secs and when i start the laptop again it runs without saying unexpected crash or any errors
    i recently under volt my proccessor to run less heat and it worked awesome but im not sure that is whats causing the vista too take forever to shut down
     
    pcteck, Jan 5, 2008
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    Has Vista performed a defragmentation of your drive lately? Is superfetch enabled? Did you install a program or windows update lately?
     
    Harleyquin07, Jan 5, 2008
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    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    Please learn to use full stops etc. with your typing. It can help people to understand what you are on about. I am going to try to decipher your post....

    First and only question is why are you (apparently from what I understand) using the power button to shut down Windows? Why not shut it down like everybody else: START, TURN OFF COMPUTER, TURN OFF.

    No wonder you have problems......

    Computers, unlike kettles, toasters etc. need to be shut down in an orderly fashion so they wake up next time with a smile :) and not an error :eek:

    Hope this helps
     
    TeeJay 44, Jan 5, 2008
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    rick_deckard Newbie

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    No, actually that doesn't help. Reread the messages here.

    What they are saying is that they TRY to use Start->Shutdown but nothing happens. Vista hangs up and will not shut down.

    This happens a lot. I have let it run for two days and it sits there saying "Shutting down...." Currently, we're 30 minutes into the shutdown cycle and nothing is happening.

    Eventually, if you want to use your computer, you *have* to do a hard shutdown and then reboot. Who knows why Vista does this. This time around it was trying to install updates. Maybe some other time a service is running and it can't shut it down. Who knows?

    Maybe Vista's security features which mean that half the time you don't have permission to do something unless you are logged in as THE Administrator (rather than merely an Administrator).

    I like Vista just fine, mind you (integrated search/launch, symlinks, lots of good stufff), but they really didn't get the security and stability down before releasing.
     
    rick_deckard, Feb 19, 2008
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