Comments on: Why does Windows take so long to shut down? http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow A resource for Vista tips, tweaks, and tutorials. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:44:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: U.K. http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-3207 U.K. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:38:14 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-3207 very good record! fixed my problem, thank you! very good record! fixed my problem, thank you!

]]> By: fastercomputernow http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-3179 fastercomputernow Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:17:45 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-3179 Love your post. Computers can definitely suck sometimes! One thing that solved a lot of my heads was Faster Computer Now. Good stuff :) Love your post. Computers can definitely suck sometimes! One thing that solved a lot of my heads was Faster Computer Now. Good stuff :)

]]> By: BigJohn http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-2704 BigJohn Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:49:57 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-2704 Try turning off windows defender. Use something else for protection. I changed because I get virus and spyware protection from my ISP. After I turned off defender - my machine shuts down faster that XP (10 seconds). Don't try to delete the prohram - its apparently P/O Vista. Just turn it off. It worked for me. Try turning off windows defender. Use something else for protection. I changed because I get virus and spyware protection from my ISP. After I turned off defender - my machine shuts down faster that XP (10 seconds). Don’t try to delete the prohram - its apparently P/O Vista. Just turn it off. It worked for me.

]]> By: Daniel Brockman http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-2580 Daniel Brockman Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:51:20 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-2580 Being extremely lazy, I wanted to create a "restart" icon and a "shutdown" icon on my desktop, so I could just grunt-point-and-click and have it happen, fast. I followed Menthol's lead and created two .bat files restart.bat and shutdown.bat which I saved in C:\b\bin , my favorite programs folder. Then, in Windows Exploder, I right-button dragged and dropped each of these .bat files, one at at time, to my desktop and there created shortcuts, which appear as icons on the desktop. Now, when I want to shut down, I doubleclick the shutdown.bat shortcut icon. When I want to restart, I doubleclick the restart.bat icon. I wouldn't call it quick, but it does happen in a minute or two, which vastly improves on my earlier experience. Here are the contents of the two .bat files: restart.bat: ---------------------cut here------------------------ C:\WINDOWS\System32\shutdown.exe -f -r ---------------------cut here------------------------ shutdown.bat ---------------------cut here------------------------ C:\WINDOWS\System32\shutdown.exe -f -s ---------------------cut here------------------------ Being extremely lazy, I wanted to create a “restart” icon and a “shutdown” icon on my desktop, so I could just grunt-point-and-click and have it happen, fast. I followed Menthol’s lead and created two .bat files restart.bat and shutdown.bat which I saved in C:\b\bin , my favorite programs folder. Then, in Windows Exploder, I right-button dragged and dropped each of these .bat files, one at at time, to my desktop and there created shortcuts, which appear as icons on the desktop.

Now, when I want to shut down, I doubleclick the shutdown.bat shortcut icon. When I want to restart, I doubleclick the restart.bat icon. I wouldn’t call it quick, but it does happen in a minute or two, which vastly improves on my earlier experience.

Here are the contents of the two .bat files:

restart.bat:
———————cut here————————
C:\WINDOWS\System32\shutdown.exe -f -r
———————cut here————————

shutdown.bat
———————cut here————————
C:\WINDOWS\System32\shutdown.exe -f -s
———————cut here————————

]]> By: Daniel Brockman http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-2579 Daniel Brockman Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:03:33 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-2579 So, maybe Vista will tell me what programs it is not shutting down quickly and how much time it spends not shutting them down. What I want to know is how to make Windows shut down right away even if Word.exe (or whatever) is still open. The respondent Menthol offered a commandline that may shut down the machine more rapidly. That is helpful. So, maybe Vista will tell me what programs it is not shutting down quickly and how much time it spends not shutting them down. What I want to know is how to make Windows shut down right away even if Word.exe (or whatever) is still open.

The respondent Menthol offered a commandline that may shut down the machine more rapidly. That is helpful.

]]> By: powershotpro http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-2491 powershotpro Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:35:35 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-2491 Ironic that mine says it is Internet Explorer, 186.4 seconds. Ironic that mine says it is Internet Explorer, 186.4 seconds.

]]> By: Menthol http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-2035 Menthol Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:39:36 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-2035 Another thing that may help to shut down quicker-ish, is to type in the run box [Windows + R], or into a command prompt, your choice. shutdown -f -s the "-f" is the force option, the "-s" is shutdown, for a restart type "-r". It still takes a while but at least you have given the command to force the closure of running programmes!!! Vista is Microsoft, & Microsoft let the end user do all the ironing of bugs, C'est la vie. I recently thought of a great Microsoft slogan. "Vista, How do you cope?" I hope this helps someone. Another thing that may help to shut down quicker-ish, is to type in the run box [Windows + R], or into a command prompt, your choice.

shutdown -f -s

the “-f” is the force option, the “-s” is shutdown, for a restart type “-r”.

It still takes a while but at least you have given the command to force the closure of running programmes!!!

Vista is Microsoft, & Microsoft let the end user do all the ironing of bugs, C’est la vie.

I recently thought of a great Microsoft slogan.

“Vista, How do you cope?”

I hope this helps someone.

]]> By: MasterxNebula http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-2007 MasterxNebula Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:53:25 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-2007 Is there an other way..... Is there an other way…..

]]> By: my pc is slow tp shut down http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-1943 my pc is slow tp shut down Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:37:07 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-1943 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Menthol http://www.vistarewired.com/2007/03/14/find-out-why-shut-down-is-so-slow/comment-page-1#comment-1818 Menthol Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:47:12 +0000 http://vistarewired.com/?p=224#comment-1818 I find everything that Vista told me was a problem, one not to be a problem. & secondly one of the programes I don't even use anymore...It's been long deleted...? It seems pointless, ish... I find everything that Vista told me was a problem, one not to be a problem. & secondly one of the programes I don’t even use anymore…It’s been long deleted…?

It seems pointless, ish…

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