windows shut down too long

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

windows takes 2mins and 30 seconds to shutdown
but it only takes 40 secs to start up
can someone help me this is only starting to happen today

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

i found some thing Virtual Memory Paging File - Clear at Shutdown - Vista Forums i today change that
to clear at shutdown but people say if yyou don't clear it gets frag easy any sugestions also my
main drive is c should i have my pagefile on d drive instead i heard that putting on the d drive is better
then on your main drive c is this true

Jonathan_King · Mar 20, 2010

Welcome!

It sounds like a certain process is causing the hang.

Before you shutdown next time, end half the processes in Task Manager>Processes tab. Be sure to write down which ones!

If the hang stops, we can work on narrowing down which process is the issue.

Alternatively, you could try a System Restore to get back before the hangs.

Good luck!
~JK

Edit: I saw your second post. You may seem some performance increase if the page file is on a separate physical drive. However, if your main OS drive is 7200 RPM, and your secondary drive is only 5200 RPM, the performance may not increase at all.

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

i found some thing Virtual Memory Paging File - Clear at Shutdown - Vista Forums i today change that
to clear at shutdown but people say if yyou don't clear it gets frag easy any sugestions also my
main drive is c should i have my pagefile on d drive instead i heard that putting on the d drive is better
then on your main drive c is this true

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

also thanks but i think it could be the above issue to clear at shutdown but people say if yyou don't clear it gets frag easy any sugestions also my
main drive is c should i have my pagefile on d drive instead i heard that putting on the d drive is better
then on your main drive c is this true any help on this matter

also i love this site always helped me thanks

logicearth · Mar 20, 2010

Turn off "Clear pagefile at shutdown" you don't need it and you certainly do not need to worry about it fragmenting. Putting the pagefile on another partition won't matter either, unless the partition is on another physical HDD.

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

if i have a large pagefile for the hdd d drive and a small for one for c will this dedrease the perform or
not is the page file for hdd d drive still used for the appl on the computer

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

i mean if i have a large page file for the d drive and a small pagefile for c will the c drive go slower
or does it matter where the pagefile comes from
and is the pagefile for the whole system to use

Jonathan_King · Mar 20, 2010

I'm not really sure, but I have a good guess the page file is not what your problem is.

It sounds like a program you have installed causing the issue.

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

Virtual Memory Paging File - Clear at Shutdown - Vista Forums
this says that it adds minutes to shutdown
the user blink created this articalw

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

i mean if i have a large page file for the d drive and a small pagefile for c will the c drive go slower
or does it matter where the pagefile comes from
and is the pagefile for the whole system to use

Jonathan_King · Mar 20, 2010

Whatever the slowest drive is, that is the drive you will get the worst performance from if you have a page file on it.

The more the system needs to read from a slow drive, the slower things will be.

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

so should i locate my page file on the d drive because the c drive is nearly full

Jonathan_King · Mar 20, 2010

Sure, if you want. That's fine.

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

also can i disable pageing file for c drive only and then leave paging file on for d

Jonathan_King · Mar 20, 2010

No, the paging file is virtual memory.

You don't have RAM specific to drives; the RAM is used by the OS for the processes that need it.

Off topic: please try to combine questions in a single post. That makes it a lot easier to follow the thread, and answer your questions.

Thank you!

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

so it does not mater where the page file is as long as i have a big one
so can i set my c drive to 16mb and haave the D drive page file at 20GB and would that be fine for my system
to operate fast as possible i do i have to set it bigger for my system to be better

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

jav · Mar 20, 2010

wait...
Is C and D different Hard drives or Different partitions on the same hard drive?

If it is different partitions on the same drive, then putting page file on different partition other then system one in the same drive slows down it. (so in this case put page file in system partition (OS))

If it is different Hard drives then turn off page file on OS drive and put it in another hard drive.

P.S. to your first question, Try this one: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/717-shut-down-speed-up.html

tz frantic · Mar 20, 2010

they different hard drives here it is this is ok what i done right

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