What can I do to help Vista shut down more reliably?

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In six months or so I'll be building a new rig, but for now I want to keep up my 6-year-old HP with Vista 32-bit. For the past six or eight months it's slow to shut down - I've replaced the HDD but the problem is that Vista is full of gunk. I don't have the backups from first installation (it was OEM and I put off making copies for four years until it became a problem ... not doing that again).

Is there a setting I can do in the registry to tell Vista to shut down after a certain time, or something to help processes terminate upon shutdown? The problem is that, I'll tell it to shut down when I'm done at night, and in the morning it's still on, still shutting down.

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There's lots you can do. From registry tweaks, to slimming down what launches at startup, and even defragmenting your disk. Vista is bloated in itself, but the junk that HP installs is even worse. I suggest downloading the recovery disk for your PC fom a torrent site, burn it, and boot it. Then choose minimal recovery, if it's there. Otherwise, do a full recovery and use the PC Decrapifier to remove the bloatware. Backup your data before you perform a system recovery. A temporary fix would be to hold down the power button for five seconds. The will shut down your PC. I hope that helps.

Orange Tails · Answer

Use these three software and see if the problem get solved...

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-cleaner/download/
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-defrag/

Also If You Laptop Get Hot then Blow some High Speed Air from Vacuum Cleaner...I am sure you will see a lot of DUST FLY!!!

? · Answer

What i would to fix your problem is to make a cherry pie, shove it into the computer, and it should make the computer a lot faster.

Anonymous · Answer

Have you been keeping up with 'check disk' operation?

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What can I do to help Vista shut down more reliably?

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