shutdown issues

Experiencing slow shutdowns on a Windows 11 PC can be a source of significant frustration, particularly for users who are often working against the clock. This issue generally arises from multiple applications and processes operating quietly in the background, or from software that may be frozen...

Hi Today Windows Defender came up with Malware for the first time ever! It found "Trojan:Win32/peals.flcl" When I looked at the location it said it was in a file called Desktop Lara that's been on my computer for years. If offered to remove it so I did. I then ran Malwarebytes and...

I run Windows 7 with an Nvidia GTX 780 Ti graphics card. Every time (and I do mean everytime), I shut my computer down, I get the windows update message ' installing 1 of 1 files But it doesn't install anything, but then when I turn my computer on again (everytime), my NVIDIA graphics card fails...

My Windows 10 PC seems to be working OK but I notice that between the Windows 10 splash screen and the user sign on page there's a period of time when the screen simply goes black. The system does get to the sign on page but black screens freak me out a bit and I was wondering if anyone else...

Hi guys dunno if you can help me with this? My icons and taskbars suddenly disappeared about an hour ago, when I restart I get my login screen ok but once I log in I get a black screen with mousse arrow that moves around. If I Ctrl alt del I can shut down and which point all the icons are...

Win 7, 64 bit, Home Premium 12Gb memory, 120GB SSD system drive. Norton Antivirus running Just started happening today. 3B, 1E, 24, and 3B so far. System is very unstable. Everything very slow and this is a fast machine. Everything is taking forever to load, sometimes won't shut down, have...

Hi i install baidu pc faster and then i removed using revo uninstaller this operation in successful but i uninstall another program restore point failed to create and i unable to shutdown . i restart by (restart normally option) after delete some folder c: program c: program data it run...

Tried doing a system restore but now it is stuck on shut down and doesn't seem to be doing anything..... I'm not sure what I can do about this now as I don't want to lose my whole hard drive... does anyone have any solutions, please help.

yesterday i connected my windows 8 lap to net and was downloading a file from torrent. today morning when i got awake, i just shutdown my lap.. after some time when i switchon my laptop, it was working fine.. but whenever i connected to wifi or 3g net., windows 8 get stuck, and i am not able to...

Since I have been using Windows 8.1, I have been getting messages when I try to change the multi-monitor configuration. which states I need to close down some programs before doing so. I have also had a refusal to restart because some program was still running and needed to be shut down. I did...

On 05/06 after installing (thru Windows Update) the AMD SATA Contoller , the AMD - Other hardware - Storage Controller - AMD SATA Contoller & IE 10 for Windows 7 for x64 based systems, the problems BSOD began. As Critical Evens (2) I got : Windows Stopped working & Shutdown Unexpectedly...

I have a new Acer Aspire V3-571 laptop with Windows 7 x64. Yesterday I bought a GPS receiver (Qstarz 818XT). It has a wireless Bluetooth adapter just like a keyboard/mouse adapter. I noticed that my laptop was having issues shutting down. I would tell it to shut down, and a few hours later the...

Hello, I have this problem: every time I start the computer, after it has been shut down for at least a few minutes, I get a BSOD. Most of the times it's really blurry, and the message says SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and mentions the file nvlddmkm.sys but that is not the only BSOD message I get...

Hello, After the 1 year warranty of my Acer pc expired, it started randomly shutting down and reboot. No gentle closing windows, or a blue screen just *poof* and restart. I did some research on this problem so i already ticked the "dont restart on critical failure" box. In my device management...

Hello, I have been having Windows Update issues for quite some time. I have it scheduled to install new updates at 3am on Wednesday morning. If the system needs to be restarted afterward it is supposed to do that too. Why are updates being installed outside of this schedule and why do I then...

New build I put together on the cheap. Seemed to be working fine until I shut down and let it sit overnight. The next morning started getting BSOD usually right after booting into windows. If I reboot a few times it will start working fine again. It will even hibernate and wake ok, but if I...

Hi, Since a while i'm having frequent BSOD, I have tried to look into the dump files to discover how to fix it but no luck this far. It doesn't really seem to have a pattern apart from during shutting down my pc. I hope you guys can help me out of this mess. Please see into my attached...

I have been having an on-going issue for some time with my external WD My Book. There are times when it is not being recognized by Windows 7(pro). It has three interface options (fire wire, esata, and USB). I have tried all three at one time or another, finally settling on the eSATA interface...

I have over 630 events logged in less than a year on my Win 7 Ultimate (64bit) which is basically turned one and off twice per day, all stating that my registry is leaking. Each shut down produces a 1530 event message like this below... Windows detected your registry file is still in use by...

My Windows 7 desktop will not enter automatic or manual sleep. In both cases the computer does an "unsuccessful shutdown". I have to cycle power to reboot the computer. Restart and Shutdown work normally. I have enabled automatic sleep with both Power Options, powercfg, and BIOS. powercfg...