But, Dave, et al, is it, indeed, an Update thing he's seeing?? Hard to tell exactly, from what he said.
Reading your OP again.- Was this after you seelcted shutdown? Then, in that case, as Saltgrass intimated, the OS would sometimes, have to complete the installation of any automatic updates. If it is something massive, such as a reinstallation of Net framework together with others, it could in extreme cases take an hour on a slower machine.
No. I run backups manually.Do you have any automatic backup software running in background?
Joe
Is everything fine upon restart? & can you be more explict as to what happened or youmessages & or screens you had & when this took place?
Is everything fine upon restart? & can you be more explict as to what happened or youmessages & or screens you had & when this took place?
Not exactly sure about what you are referring to, but if it involved a Windows Update, that needed to shutdown to install, I have seen an anti-virus program slow that down significantly.
I have the same problem so I reinstalled [COLOR=blue !important][FONT=inherit !important][COLOR=blue !important][FONT=inherit !important]Windows7[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR]. The "performing operations" goes from 4 to 14 hours (overnight) and then shuts down. Turning off the computer by force has no ill effects. I am suspecting some sort of defrag kicking in but I have not installed any on the [COLOR=blue !important][FONT=inherit !important][COLOR=blue !important][FONT=inherit !important]reinstall[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR]. I have put windows update on do not download. Could win7 defrag auto start on two fresh machines? This happens about three times in two weeks and then nothing for a month