hello fellow neowinians. i need your help. before you read my problems i must tell you that i am quite experienced with computers and the system i am using which is windows xp. i know how to edit the registry well and clean up my computer keep it organized and clean of viruses and etc etc. i also defrag every week or two. my first problem, my main problem, is that recently starting off the past two weeks my computer has been shutting down with an immensily long waiting time. in other words it takes forever to shut down for some reason. i didn't install any dangerous software before that. so i don't think it was any software or anything. so i am not sure what it is which is why i need your help. i have tried using the shut down and restart shortcuts that came with tweak xp. basically the shutdown file in the windows system directory. and i tried shutting down with Start, Turn Off Computer. Stand-by and Hibernate modes both works perfectly. However restart and shut down don't. It does eventually shut down or restart. But everytime it has been doing that i have tried to ctrl+alt+del and nothing happened and i tried to cancel things in my notifications area. you know the area at the very bottom right corner of your desktop and the last part of your start/taskbar. where the programs you run hide sometimes and become an icon and where your volume control icon sits and stuff. yeah that didn't help either. so eventually i just shut it down nowadays and it takes 3-7 min and eventually shuts down. could it be the clearing of the pagefile. if so can someone remind me how to disable/enable that through the registry (regedit.exe). thanks. well that's it last but not least i have a small desktop problem with the interface/gui whatever you wanna call it. you know where the quick launch space is right beside the start button. you can put icon shortcuts to programs you use often and stuff. i stopped using that about a month ago maybe 3 weeks minimum. and now all the the time when i start up or restart or anything it appears there without any icons. but it leaves an empty space and i have to click properties and check the hide quick launch thing all the time. i tried locking/unlocking the taskbar then restarting nothing changed. so those two problems. thanks alot guys in advance for helping me out. bye.
edit. tried to search for some related topics in these forums. found some things to help me out. changed some registries and changed the waittokillapp and waittokillservice to 2000 each from 20000. i also changed the clearpagefile to 0. gonna shutdown now and boot up again and shutdown again. will post how it went in a bit. and if this is supposed to be in operating system help please move this someone thank u.
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hello fellow neowinians. i need your help. before you read my problems i must tell you that i am quite experienced with computers and the system i am using which is windows xp. i know how to edit the registry well and clean up my computer keep it organized and clean of viruses and etc etc. i also defrag every week or two. my first problem, my main problem, is that recently starting off the past two weeks my computer has been shutting down with an immensily long waiting time. in other words it takes forever to shut down for some reason. i didn't install any dangerous software before that. so i don't think it was any software or anything. so i am not sure what it is which is why i need your help. i have tried using the shut down and restart shortcuts that came with tweak xp. basically the shutdown file in the windows system directory. and i tried shutting down with Start, Turn Off Computer. Stand-by and Hibernate modes both works perfectly. However restart and shut down don't. It does eventually shut down or restart. But everytime it has been doing that i have tried to ctrl+alt+del and nothing happened and i tried to cancel things in my notifications area. you know the area at the very bottom right corner of your desktop and the last part of your start/taskbar. where the programs you run hide sometimes and become an icon and where your volume control icon sits and stuff. yeah that didn't help either. so eventually i just shut it down nowadays and it takes 3-7 min and eventually shuts down. could it be the clearing of the pagefile. if so can someone remind me how to disable/enable that through the registry (regedit.exe). thanks. well that's it last but not least i have a small desktop problem with the interface/gui whatever you wanna call it. you know where the quick launch space is right beside the start button. you can put icon shortcuts to programs you use often and stuff. i stopped using that about a month ago maybe 3 weeks minimum. and now all the the time when i start up or restart or anything it appears there without any icons. but it leaves an empty space and i have to click properties and check the hide quick launch thing all the time. i tried locking/unlocking the taskbar then restarting nothing changed. so those two problems. thanks alot guys in advance for helping me out. bye.
edit. tried to search for some related topics in these forums. found some things to help me out. changed some registries and changed the waittokillapp and waittokillservice to 2000 each from 20000. i also changed the clearpagefile to 0. gonna shutdown now and boot up again and shutdown again. will post how it went in a bit. and if this is supposed to be in operating system help please move this someone thank u.
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