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When you click on the Windows shutdown button, you find that your Windows will not shutdown It may go as far as the teal colored screen, where it displays “Shutting Down … “ and then remain there. In other words, your Windows 7 or Windows 8 may during shut down, freeze or the activity circle on the screen may continue to move.
Windows 7 |8 does not shutdown
Here are a few valid reasons that may be prolonging or preventing a Windows shut down.
- 1. If yours is a new Windows install, maybe “OOBE” is taking its time. Tis is especially true in the earlier versions of Windows. In the initial days, when you try to restart or shut down a Windows-based computer, the system may take a long time to restart or to shut down.
Alternatively or additionally, you may receive a message that resembles the following: Windows is configuring updates. This usually occurs 1-2 days after you first start Windows – or sometimes after a Windows Update. The problem occurs because the system has to perform maintenance functions, to delete unnecessary files. Typically, this process will occur one or two days after the Out Of Box Experience (OOBE) Wizard runs. When this problem occurs, it may take as long as 10-20 minutes to shut the system down. The process occurs only one time. So just wait for the process to finish once.
- 2. If you’ve updated your Windows, maybe the Updates are taking a little longer than expected time to configure or install. Best to let the system take its own sweet time, as it only a temporary situation.
- 3. Have you set Windows to delete Page (Swap) file at every shut down? If so then this process will take some time. You may use this Microsoft Fix It to enable or disable deletion of the Page File. In this case you will have to make Windows stop deleting the Page File at every shut down. While on the subject, this post on how to Disable, delete, recreate paging file in Windows may also interest you.
Windows will not shut down
But if you think that the problem is something else and is a recurring one, then here are the possible reasons :
- One of your processes or services is not shutting down.
- You have a faulty or incompatible device driver installed.
- You have a faulty or incompatible program running.
Here are a few suggestions which you may consider, not necessarily in the order mentioned, that will help you troubleshoot the problem:- 1. Undo any recent changes which you may have made to your system. You may have to uninstall a recently installed program or an upgrade or an update or a hardware with device drivers.
- 2. Try a Last Known Good Configuration or a System Restore.
- 3. Use the Task Manager to manually try and identify the probable cause or causes for this. Manually stop and quit the suspect program, and then shut down to see if the issue is being resolved. You may have to repeat the procedure with several running processes.
- 4. Enter Safe Mode. From the Menu, move the cursor down to: Enable Boot Logging and hit Enter.
On reboot, search for ntbtlog.txt file in C:\Windows folder. Look for any signs of problems loading device drivers. If you find problems, go into Device Manager and disable the device or uninstall the program. Reboot. If the problem does not occur then you know it was that device or program causing problems.
- 6. Perform a Clean Boot to troubleshoot the problem. This may help you identify offending third-party processes.
- 5. Upgrade the Computer’s CMOS/BIOS. Faulty CMOS and BIOS settings can cause startup and shutdown problems.
- 6. If you have a computer that is running Windows 7. When the system is under heavy load, you may encounter a problem where Windows 7 stops or the keyboard responding when you shut down the computer or put the computer into Sleep. This problem frequently occurs on computers that have multiple processors or that have a processor with multiple cores. In this case apply hotfix from KB977307.
- 7. Enable Verbose Status Messages. This will help you identify, at which point Windows stops the shutting down process.
- 8. Enable the Shutdown Event Tracker in Windows 7 | 8 so as to be able to analyze your system shutdown process.
- 9. Run Performance Troubleshooter and see if it helps you. Type the following in Run box and hit Enter to open it.
%systemroot%\system32\msdt.exe -id PerformanceDiagnostic
10. View the Event Logs using the built-in Event Viewer or our freeware Windows Event Viewer Plus to do so easily. Maybe you will find something in the Event Logs.
- 11. If you are running Windows 8, disable Hybrid Shutdown and see if it helps.
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