SLow Shutting Down

Hi,
My Pc is working fine, except when it comes to shutting down, then it can take upto 10 minutes to finally shut down. I have ran Adaware and spy bot and am currently virus protected by Norton. I don't have loads of processes running in the background but it still takes ages to finally shut down or log off or change user.
I tried posting a Hijack this log but it wasn't answered so I am presuming it isn't linked to a virus etc.
Any pointers in the right direction very much appreciated.
-Simon

How old is you PC? What OS? How large is the HD and how much free space? When was it last defragged? Shutdown requires Windows to cache its settings for a healthy restart. If you have overloaded your HD to the point that there is inadequate HD space to cache settings, or if you have a loaded HD that is so fragmented that there is not enough contigious space that the heads have to search the entire volume to cache. I hope this gives you a clue to solving your problem, but if not repost with answers to my questions in the first sentence. Good luck.

Dawggie doin' it with style

Hi Simon,

Check out this link on XP shutdown problems, see if anything helps.
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm
As kdawg said, regular diskcleanup and defrag will improve your system performance including boot and shutdown. you could also see if its due to isufficient RAM.

Hi,

I have a PC that is almost 8 months old, it has 2 200GB HardDrives,
C Drives has 171GB of free space, the D Drive has 174 of free space.
It was defragged about 6 weeks ago......

Thanks in advance for the help.

SImon

Did you check the page that rusty posted?

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

Also wouldn't hurt to run a Check Disk.

start > run > cmd
in the new window type chkdsk/f
when prompted to run on boot choose Y & reboot
this will check for & fix any disk errors.