Comments on: 3 Ways To Speed Up The Windows 7 Shutdown Process

By: himanshu

himanshu — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:14:00 +0000

i really wanted this. windows has just started copying the snail.

By: Dum

Dum — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:00:00 +0000

I prefer to do nothing, don’t know why.

By: Achmed

Achmed — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:13:00 +0000

I prefer use Hibernate to turn off computer. That is the fastest way…

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:44:00 +0000

Lucky you!

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:43:00 +0000

I’m not sure, either. I used the “-” under Windows 7 Professional.

By: Kuro Neko

Kuro Neko — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:20:00 +0000

I’m not sure why, but my Win7 computers only accept “/” instead of “-” for shutdown switch.

By: ranjeet varma

ranjeet varma — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:47:00 +0000

my system shuts down in about 12-15 secs using normal shutdown

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

By: Hildy

Hildy — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:50:00 +0000

The disadvantage to sleep is that with current chipsets it does drain the battery a bit over time but it does provide a faster startup. Personally I’ll take the extra 5 seconds of startup in return for more time between charges. Depending on your computer and your usage of it, sleep might make more sense.

By: Bruce Epper

Bruce Epper — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:09:00 +0000

I rarely shutdown my machine, but I do reboot it a few times per month. The decision to reboot is based on a meter I keep on my desktop that shows me how much memory is currently being used. I have 8GB in my system and when the system is idling and using more than approximately 3GB of RAM, I will reboot it. I manually shut down all running apps instead of having Windows terminate them during shutdown because it is faster, especially with Java apps and Digsby (for an as yet unknown reason). I have seen some desktop gadgets that can also cause the sidebar.exe process to stall during shutdown. (I don’t personally use them, they have been on client machines and neither the client nor I have been too concerned with it.) As long as I have shut down the “problem children” and other primary applications first, my shutdown time has never exceeded approximately 20 seconds. On average, it ends up being around 12 seconds.

By: MDC

MDC — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:11:00 +0000

You should try Sleep. Put your computer only to hibernate when you won’t need it for a long time :)

By: Hildy

Hildy — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:11:00 +0000

I only shut down about once a week. Normally I hibernate. With an SSD this takes about one second and it has the advantage of saving work in minimized programs that I forgot to save myself. Startup is also faster. OTOH, having used Windows since 3.1, I do shutdown or reboot once a week to clear out stuff but I don’t know if it’s necessary. It is necessary to close programs more frequently to handle memory leaks (and I’m talking about you, Firefox).

By: Jeffery Fabish

Jeffery Fabish — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:32:00 +0000

I have my system set to clear the page file at shut down, which adds a lot of overhead time to the shutdown process. If you have it enabled, that’s probably why your shutdown is taking forever.