The problem is when I go to shutdown, it freezes up and I have to do a hard shutdown. Ive done the disk error repairs and even reinstalled windows however the problem still remains. Would getting a new hard drive fix this ? Thanks
Originally posted by Zona This might make some folks holler at me, but two years on one install is a long time. If it were me I would format and reinstall.
You could try cleaning the registry with ccleaner (two C's are intentional) it is a free program and wicked good.
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Vista does manage to last longer than XP does on an install but I still like to reformat and get a completely fresh install every so often too.
I thought he reinstalled Windows already to try to fix it though. But yea a registry cleaner might help. Might try jv16 PowerTools, I found it worked better than CCleaner.
There may be some spyware slowing down the shutdown process. Try both Spybot and Malwarebytes. Also HijackThis is a great tool though a bit technical.
Two others things would be to check the system event log, see if there's an error at the time of shutdown in there. Also might be able to use some SysInternals tool like Process Monitor and trace bootup/shutdown to see what process is hanging.
wow couldn't log in all day, finally it accepted to load in safe mode, see lol this is what I mean. Yea I reinstalled windows twice already in the past week. Does a fresh install clean out the registry and all that junk ?
Originally posted by Praor wow couldn't log in all day, finally it accepted to load in safe mode, see lol this is what I mean. Yea I reinstalled windows twice already in the past week. Does a fresh install clean out the registry and all that junk ?
It depends, if you run the install from Windows then it usually does an upgrade which carries over as much of the old as possible, if you boot off the CD then you usually get a choice to do a clean install or an upgrade install, clean install is a completely fresh registry.
It sounds like you might be looking at a bad hard drive or ram.. Your hard drive manufacturer website will have a tool for examining the drive for faults, and you can burn memtest86+ to a cd to test your memory.
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If you are talking about XP, it is a common issue. Only a disk wipe and reinstall will fix it. If it is another OS, I can't help you.
Its Vista Home Premium, The pc is less then 2 years old and just started happening about 2 weeks ago.
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This might make some folks holler at me, but two years on one install is a long time. If it were me I would format and reinstall.
You could try cleaning the registry with ccleaner (two C's are intentional) it is a free program and wicked good.
peace
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Vista does manage to last longer than XP does on an install but I still like to reformat and get a completely fresh install every so often too.
I thought he reinstalled Windows already to try to fix it though. But yea a registry cleaner might help. Might try jv16 PowerTools, I found it worked better than CCleaner.
There may be some spyware slowing down the shutdown process. Try both Spybot and Malwarebytes. Also HijackThis is a great tool though a bit technical.
Two others things would be to check the system event log, see if there's an error at the time of shutdown in there. Also might be able to use some SysInternals tool like Process Monitor and trace bootup/shutdown to see what process is hanging.
wow couldn't log in all day, finally it accepted to load in safe mode, see lol this is what I mean. Yea I reinstalled windows twice already in the past week. Does a fresh install clean out the registry and all that junk ?
Waiting on Guild Wars 2
It depends, if you run the install from Windows then it usually does an upgrade which carries over as much of the old as possible, if you boot off the CD then you usually get a choice to do a clean install or an upgrade install, clean install is a completely fresh registry.
It sounds like you might be looking at a bad hard drive or ram.. Your hard drive manufacturer website will have a tool for examining the drive for faults, and you can burn memtest86+ to a cd to test your memory.