xp help

[sjhaycroft]

hey guys just a quick question, when i click shut down on windows, it goes to the page where it says "windows is shutting down" and then seems to freeze. any ideas as to what could be causing this?

 

[zeus]

Something isnt shutting down very fast thats all. It could be anything on your pc.

We have the same problem when logging out/ shutting down. It takes forever to "save settings" It turned put to be the DCC. When I delete the connection from the pc it shuts down fast!

 

[sjhaycroft]

what could cause random freezes?

 

[donkey42]

what could cause random freezes?

you probably need to do a format & reinstall

BTW: with the shutdown thing, try this[ot]i only did a quick search of the net for that, maybe there are better ones[/ot]

Edit: i think disabling fast shutdown may fix it, but i can't remember how you disable it

 

[sjhaycroft]

I cant sort this thing out guys

 

[Karanislove]

Look in your event viewer nd look at all the latest errors, that might give us some help detecting the culprit...;)

 

[sjhaycroft]

service control manager (7026) and tcpip (4226)

 

[Karanislove]

Is it possible to have a pic like this

coz Event Id n all also helpful while watching events...

 

[sjhaycroft]

yer, whats the problem and how can i solve it

 

[zeus]

Try google... I doubt anyone here knows event ids off by heart!

event id 7026 - Google Search

event id 4226 - Google Search

 

[thoonie]

A corrupted file in the C:\Windows\Prefetch folder might be causing this issue. Go to c:/windows/prefetch, delete all files in there, this will help speed up your booting time aswell, see if this helps.

 

[sjhaycroft]

wait but if i delete all the files in prefetch, could that screw up my whole system?

 

[thoonie]

no it wont.

 

[sjhaycroft]

Thanks but that didnt work :(. where can i find "windows driver registry", like how do i get to it?