Two minutes for the login in to be processed this morning. Other login ins for other sites working at the speed of light. I use C Cleaner. I wonder if that is deleting something vital to Moneyam?

I've logged in quickly, just like normal.

System has suddenly started to hang up when I close down. It just sits saying "Windows shutting down". Is there an easy (non-technical) cure?

I am using Windows XP Professional.

I haven't made any recent changes (that I am aware of).

Any hints will be appreciated. :)

Alan

There are a multitude of reasons for it.

The most common cause is a process that windows is unable to stop. When you ask to shut down, a kill is issued for any user processes. Then windows shuts down its own processes. The process not shutting down may be hanging for a variety of reasons. It could be a virus, but that is unlikely.

A file that needs to be written to may have bad sectors in it and the PC is doing retries and may have maxed out on the retries. As windows is in a semi shutdown state, it cannot tell you what problems it has.

If you find it is hanging then you might try ctrl-alt-del. That alone sometimes does the trick. Try it a couple of times. In theory the task manager may pop up as a result of the Cttl-alt-del depending on how close to shutting down it is. If the task manager opens then have a look and see what processes are still running.

I have found that problems shutting down have preceded a disk failure due to bad areas, but it is not always the case.

An extra thought.

When the PC is hanging have a look at the disk traffic light to see if it doing anything. There is the outside possibility that it is trying to update something. Have you left it for a good period of time, say a quarter of an hour or Ionger?

Thanks Haystack. I'll give that a try :)

Encountering a slight problem yet again, when I press trades or the news of a share I get a red and yellow star with a red exclamation in the middle. I have looked at Java and it says Java is updated please has anyone got any suggestions? This is a new one on me!!

Greystone,

As Hays said, the slow down in closing down can be down to load windows updates.

There seems to have been a few recently.

However, I have run 2 cleaners for a number of years and also use Avira as a virus scanner.

Thankfully no problems.

The cleaners C-Cleaner and Tweak-now Regcleaner and Avira have free versions and I was surprised at the junk they disposed of and default settings seem to be problem free.

Worth a look.


I believe Hays suggested both the latter in his younger days.

Hi TOK

:)

Just a suggestion...

Shut down the Toolbars on your browser (eg, particularly the Google Tool Bar) and then re-try.

A good program to download and install is Secunia. It checks ALL your software for whether it is slap bang up to date and updates them automatically if they aren't. Just a few programs need a tadge of Manual assistance from you. eg, Google Chrome being one of them. Reason being, there's a message that needs leaving or ticking with the download about making Chrome your default browser.

As an example, Secunia tells me, that currently, all of my Windows Updates are current and 97 (yes, apparently 97 !!!) other programs are also completely up to date too.

Hi EL, I'll give it a try tomorrow morning when I first log on. I have Secunia installed and, as you say, its a handy bit of kit.
This might sound ridiculous but I get the feeling that moving the mouse after clicking the sign-on panels, speeds up the process.

ExecL - Log-on whizzed through this morning without disabling tool bars. All very strange.

could it have been a security update or other update making it lag?

Maybe but unlikely, BB, as updates usually download on closure at the end of the day.

Samsung Ativ Q tablet runs both Windows 8 and Android

Samsung has unveiled a tablet that can switch between the Windows 8 and Android operating systems.

The Ativ Q has a 13.3in (33.8cm) screen that sits over a keyboard that can be folded out for typing or set to act as a stand. In addition it has a stylus.

Oh dear skinny! Does that mean that your new PC is already out of date?

Harry - it was out of date the second I ordered it - still very good though - 20 seconds from turning it on to 10+ windows opening and the dulcet sounds of radio 4!

Re my logon problems. I think I have identified the problem: McAfee Site Advisor. I 've disabled this add-on and all now seems well.

After many years of using the free version of AVG and ZoneAlarm i thought i would give Avast and Comodo a try for the 1st time and the initial signs are looking rather good.

Does anyone else use this combination and if so do you suggest keeping it or go back to the old AVG and ZoneAlarm combination.

MB I used to use the same combination as you that of AVG and ZoneAlarm freebie editions, I have an ex Currys Engineer who sorts out problems on my networks.

Last time he visited about 6 weeks ago for a quarterly check up he changed me over to MICROSOFT ESSENTIALS and reckons this is now superior to AVG and ZoneAlarm.

Had no problems at all since he installed it.

Just go to google and do search, and download from microsoft site.

Might be what you are wanting he certainly says hes instaling it for all his customers.

I use Security Essentials and Comodo and find that combination works very well. I also do regular full scans with Malwarebytes.