What causes slow shutdowns on Xp?
 

I recently built this computer using an asus p5ql-e motherboard with windows xp and 4 gigs of ram. Whenever I turn the computer off, it will remain in the windows is shutting down screen for about 3 minutes before turning off. I've searched a bit on the internet and saw that clear pageview thing. Mine is disabled. I also read about the roxio cdburner issue. I don't have that program, although I do think there is some roxio program associated with my blackberry software. What else can I look into for solving this issue?

tia

u installed, saved and changed muchos stuff

not really. The only software I installed are msn, norton 2008 and warcraft 3.

norton will kill ur system

^kill? not too sure about that..

but i do recommend avast!.

pretty much a memory hog

Norton is a POS. He is right about that. It's bloatware.

I suggest Avast or AntiVir.

corrupted system files might cause the slowness, it depends on how you maintain your
computer. There are at least 10 different ways to improve the shut down speed, you
should go look it up on google, one of them I find that is very helpful should be the force
close down method, but then you won't like it to happen when you are working on your
hw or paper.

Norton generally takes a while to shut down, but not that long.

To check to see if it's a software issue:

Start > Run ... > msconfig > Services > Check "Uncheck all Microsoft Services" > Click Disable All > Startup > Click Disable All > Click OK > Restart when prompted.

Your computer will reboot and won't load anything except Windows. Shut your computer down after the reboot and, if it shuts down quickly now, you can rest assured it's a piece of software causing it. Slowly start re-enabling services via msconfig and rebooting until you find the culprit.

If your computer still takes forever to shut down even with nothing but Windows running, I would then turn to running hardware diagnostics, starting with the hard drive and memory. Ultimate Boot CD is probably your best "one-stop-shop" for free hardware diagnostics.

thanks Jmac.