shutdown issues

There are as many potential solutions for interminable PC shutdowns as there are potential causes, so it's best to start simple before resorting to Registry tweaks and complex diagnostics. Originally posted at How To More...

I've found that it's much better (in my case) to run without integration features enabled on an XP VM. When I have them enabled, the following happens: - Can't do Start->Shutdown (it's removed from the menu) - Sometimes hangs if you click the Close icon (and have it set to shutdown) - CPU...

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My system has been having a lot of problems today and, after a good two hours of trouble shooting, I finally narrowed the issue down to the Search Service, which must have gotten damaged or corrupted somehow. Here's the problems. 1. When the search service is running, IE8 and Word 2010...

Hi: I have experienced a few blue screen issues before shut down for the past few weeks. I'm attaching the bump file and please let me know if you need more information in order to help me.

For the past month my computer has been experiencing multiple issues. I don't believe the cause is a Virus/Spyware, though I could be wrong. Sometimes the computer just shuts down. No BSOD, no error message, it just shuts down. Other times the mouse and keyboard hang. The lights on the keyboard...

Really fun things happen if your laptop falls off the bed while you're asleep. In Windows, I can no longer log off/reboot/shut down normally (Linux, however, is fine). Also, if I put my laptop to sleep in Windows, it will inexplicably refuse to wake up (again, Linux can wake up just fine...

Hi I recently installed win 7 64 bit on my computer and it was fine to start and ran pretty fast but then installs suddenly started getting really slow, 20+ hours in some cases or just not working at all. Also worth nothing that I had to turn of UAC in safe mode as it stopped displaying the...

At some random moments my network connection fails (limited acces only) and if I try to fix it network connections just crashes and won't reopen. Also I've noticed if this problem occurs(limited acces) I cannot start games or shut down windows. If I start a game then it will just immidiately...

Windows 7 might get fixed Eventually By Link Removed - Invalid URL Thursday, 31 December 2009, 12:04 MICROSOFT WINDOWS HACKER Mark Russinovich has been telling Beta News how he fixed a problem that has been plaguing Windows for the last 20 years. For ages malware writers have been...

Why won't Windows 7 work on my HP Pavilion a6720y desktop PC? I have searched and searched for an answer to this question. Thus far I have not come up with anything. The computer, since I upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista, seems to have error after error that was not present before the upgrade...

Prior to the Windows updates of 12/15/09 I was local administrator, now I am a standard user with my previous profile wiped out. And my Shutdown and Restart items are greyed out. Any ideas out there?

Running an old but reliable HP dc7100. Installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit. Runs fine, no hardware issues at all except needed to install a graphics card to get Aero effects to work & had to change the sound drivers to get the sound working. However since the original install the restart option...

I have an Abit QuadGT IX38 mobo, latest BIOS, but they are out of the mobo business and I don't expect any new BIOS revisions. Can't even find their US support site any longer. Anyway, the trouble is, I can put the pc to sleep apparently fine the first time, but after waking it up, it will not...

Problem: My computer fails to go into Sleep mode, and it also will automatically restart about 1-2 seconds after shutting down. This issue initially arose when I had the RC installed. During that time, I had been able to Sleep the computer just fine, but one time it seemed to randomly fail...

Hello there, folks! Been running build 7600 of Windows 7 for a while and it kind of crapped out on me last night. Here are all the problems that started last night It wont shut down ( sat on "Shutting down..." screen for 12 hours today) The Notification Area only loads a couple of icons, no...

I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 last night and ended up with two control panel icons on my task bar. I called Microsoft and worked with them for 2 1/2 to three hours and I still have the icons and now my machine takes for ever to shut down and everytime it reboots I get and error that it...

A friend installed W7 RC on my son's computer and it is now suddenly shutting down. I read some posts online that point to Windows 7 being sensitive to Video card heat so whenever he watches a movie on his computer his video card heats up and windows shuts down. He never had that problem with XP...

I installed windows 7 7100 x32 on my laptop (Acer Aspire 5535) and my experience has been great, is just 2 of the most important features are not working or taking lots of time: 1- The computer is not shutting down: When is going down stucks on the shutting down message and never goes down...

when i tried to uninstall AVG Free in favor of Zonealarm (i got the vista version working through compatibility), i got bluescreened twice. this then led to the following issues. 1) whenever i start up my computer, the gadgets take forever to load and take up 100% of my processor. i have to...