Our computers get worked over pretty hard. We run them nonstop all day, pulling up a dozen different windows with ten different operations going on in each. When we go to sleep many of us leave our machines running, partially because we think we may return to it later and half because we are just [...]

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When you press the power button on your computer you are by default powering it down. You need to press the button for a few seconds for this to happen. This is handy if the Windows operating system itself is not reacting anymore, if it is completely frozen for instance. The Windows 7 start menu [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

If you ever encountered a situation where you had to leave the PC that was still running a program that could not be terminated then Airytec Switch Off might offer a different solution than keeping the PC on until your return. The program can initiate local and remote shutdowns and other actions. It comes as [...]

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Windows Shutdown usually takes only a matter of seconds before the computer shuts down. It can take longer if commands or applications are executed at shutdown – like cleaning temporary files or the pagefile – or if a driver or program does not respond properly to the shutdown command. One of the better additions of [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

If you are one of those guys who love to use their PC or laptop to listen to music or watching a movie before they fall asleep in their bed you might appreciate a software that is smart enough to find out that the user is asleep and that performs an automatic shutdown afterwards. Smart [...]

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Manage PC Shutdown [link, via Genbeta] is a small application for Windows that, as the name already suggests, manages several ways to shutdown the computer. The main purpose of the software is to define the event and action that should be undertaken. Possible events are if a process stops, a countdown, low cpu usage, low [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

I have never seen that many shutdown options in my life. That was my first thought when I saw a screenshot of Dshutdown, a software created by the Italian programmer Dimio. It offers normal shutdown options like shutting down at a specific time or when a program is closed. These are normal shutdown options that many programs offer but here are some that you might have never heard of before.

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It sometimes takes ages to shutdown Windows XP and Windows Vista, most of the time when you are in a hurry. This can be caused by processes that are still open or not reacting. Windows tries to close those processes which can take a long time. If you don’t have the time or patience to wait for the shutdown you might want to try the excellent freeware Superfast Shutdown which does exactly what the name suggests.

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Are you experiencing long shut down times ? Is it taken some minutes after you click on shut down before windows finally shuts down your computer ? This problem could be caused by unloading the current user profile.

This can happen when third party, or even Microsoft applications have not properly cleaned up when exiting. Windows will keep trying to unload the profile until Windows finally decides that it can’t and should shutdown. Even if you find the application causing the problem – it may be impossible to do anything about it.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows