Windows 7 - Shut Down -Speed Up

Hello Demonicon,

You most likely have some app that is running in background not wanting to shut down properly. This tutorial will not affect that. You could check in Task Manager (CTRL+Shift+ESC) to see what "Applications" or "Proccess" for a app are listed before shutting down to help narrow down which one may be the cause.

What do you have the wait time set as?

If you like, you could give the tutorial below to use a force shut down shortcut to see if that may help shut down your computer faster until you find the app causing the delay.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks, I've been looking for ways to maximise my performance on my laptop without purchasing new hardware or software. (:

Hi
I had some problems with shutting down. It takes to long-more than 2min to shutdown. I tried the methods you described above. It really worked but not so great. Then two weeks ago I installed windows 8 consumer preview. Its really takes 10-15 sec to start and shutdown. Is it possible in 7 too.

Hello Firetrix,

It sounds like you may have something that is hanging at shut down. Do you have everything closed before shutting down?

Hi brink
yes I had some background processes slow down me. But now I got fixed. What I am trying to ask here is now I have win 8 with shut down time less than 10sec. Is it possible to get that kind of speed in win 7.

And thank you for your post.

Well, that really depends on how fast your system hardware is, and if you have anything else running that may slow it down. What's your current shut down time? Hopefully not the 2 mins.

You might give the instant shut down shortcut in the tutorial below a try to see if that may help any.

Shut Down Computer Shortcut - Create

now I am using windows 8 consumer preview. And the shut down time is 10 sec.

Windows 8 is not fully complete, therefore will have less files than the Windows 7 operating system, maybe that's why Windows 8 seems to shutdown faster.