Vista extremely slow shutdown

Let me point out that neither I nor anyone else who warns against the use of registry cleaners has ever said that they always cause problems. If they always caused problems, they would disappear from the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry cleaner and never had a problem with it.

Rather, the problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it the substantial risk of having a problem. And since there is no benefit to using a registry cleaner, running that risk is a very bad bargain. If your computer has gotten slower, the most common reason these days is malware infection. What anti-virus program and anti-spyware programs do you run? Are they kept up to date? Follow the instruction below to restore the operating system to an earlier time.

If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type your password, or click Continue. In the System Restore dialog box, click next. In the list of restore points, click a restore point that was created at least one week before the current date, and then click next.

Note: If you do not find a restore point that is at least one week old, select the earliest restore point that is available. Click Finish. The computer restarts. The system files and settings are returned to the state that they were in when the restore point was created.

Next, I would run an Anti-virus scan and see if you have any virus or malware infection on your computer. You can also look in the event viewer for any error messages.

Original Title: Registry problems Computer slower than when I first installed Windows7, won't shut down, outlook will open but sometimes it won't. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Rebooting seems faster too as if I've cleaned up a bad program. Its risky because some programs may not be able to write data back in time but in my view, screw that program.

Just make sure you've saved any docs you've got open. Who cares about the rest. Backup your registry. Change the long ms setting to a smaller number. Best to start with first. Hope that helps. PCmag wrote that Microsoft is trying to get users to use the hybrid sleep mode instead of shutting down.

I have used it by setting my laptop power options to sleep when I close the lid. But still, when I want to shut down, shut down now dang it!!!! My opinion is that Vista sucks anyway. This isn't the only problem I've had with it by a long shot. Sure there has been some potentially cool advances and tools for master users. But Microsoft doesn't seem to get that the important thing is the user experience, not their vision of how you should interact with your own comptuter.

So I'm moving to linux. I've built a kubuntu 8 beta with kde desktop server machine and I really like it. I have full control and can change what I want. There are plenty of productivity programs in the open source world so I don't miss hardly a thing. I am probably soon going to partition this Vista laptop and setup ubuntu linux on it as my default OS and use Vista only for those rare things where I dont' have a choice program wise.

I figure that if someone has to learn enough to make registry edits on Vista to make it work, why not just go for full control?????

Microsft said Vista was a work in progress. Why not then go to an OS where the progress has been much greater. Sunday, April 20, PM. It has explained all possible reason for vista slow working and shutdown. Thursday, June 26, AM. Dam windows vista is the main problem!!! Wednesday, March 3, PM. Try to reduce startup programs. Friday, February 18, AM. Ziegler 0. I take a look at the trace, maybe I see what's wrong with your Windows. Proposed as answer by Andre.