Solved Dell n4110 Shutting Down slowly after CMOS Battery death & replacement

[Blake81]

Dell n4110 Shutting Down slowly after CMOS Battery death & replacement

First of all, I'm not sure if I'm posting this on the right forum (or if it is Win7-related), so I do apologize if I posted in the wrong place.

So, my father's Dell Laptop had its CMOS battery kick the bucket about a month ago. It had all the symptoms; loss of clock, five BEEPS at the start; the usual. But also, it was shutting down VERY SLOWLY; something that hadn't happened before the battery failure. Still, I thought it was all just part of the problem.

However, due to our friend COVID, the battery just arrived today. So after a replacement, the clock is fine and the beeps are gone, but the slow shutdown remains.

Any idea of what could be causing that? This laptop has a very fresh Win7 Ult install, a freshly upgraded SSD, and all the RAM you can give it. So I am fully unsure of what may be causing this, or even where to start searching for a culprit. I fear all this time with a bad battery may have damaged it somehow...

Thanks in Advance

EDIT: LOL, talk about Murphy's Laws; after two hours trying to look for the problem, the moment I made this post, he found out he had accidentally installed Mcafee at some point by mistake, and he had two AVs wrestling for who was the boss of this PC. Weird problems usually have weird solutions

Marking this as solved.