Slow XP Shutdown – How to Fix Windows XP Slow Shutdown Issue

You have an Acer Aspire one model ZG5 computer that you just performed a Microsoft Windows operating system recovery on. Now it takes forever for your computer to shutdown properly. What can you do to fix this, you keep asking yourself?

Your Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system user profile might be causing your computer to shutdown slowly. You can download and install user profile hive cleanup service. You will want to double click on the UPHClean-Setup.msi file to install this service.

Once installed this user profile hive cleanup service is set to become an automatic service at Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system startup. You will want to reboot your computer after installation and then perform a test shutdown. Hopefully, that Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system user profile hive cleanup service will fix your issue.

Sometimes Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system is slower to shutdown, the longer you have your computer powered on. Does that change anything? Not necessarily, that user profile hive cleanup service basically makes sure that your Microsoft Windows operating system profile is cleaned up properly before your computer shuts down.

If this fixes your issue then it should not matter how long you have your computer powered on. These instructions were written for an Acer Aspire one model ZG5 with Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system installed. You can certainly use these instructions for other brand and model computers with Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system installed.

If installing the Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system user profile hive cleanup service does not fix your issue, you can restore your Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system to a state before Microsoft Windows operating system would not shutdown in a timely manner. Basically, you will want to choose a date before this slow shutdown issue started happening. You may want to choose a date before you noticed your computer with Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating taking a long time to shutdown.

If successful you will be able to then boot into Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system and then try shutting down that operating system. You will want to log on to Microsoft Windows operating system as an administrator. You can then click the start menu icon.

Then you can select "All Programs". Now you will want to choose "Accessories". Next you can select "System Tools". Now then you will want to click on "System Restore".

Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system restore tool will begin. On a "Welcome to System Restore" page, you will want to click on "Restore my computer to an earlier time", if it is not already selected. Now you simply choose "Next".

On a "Select a Restore Point" page, you will want to click on the most recent system restore point in this list, before you had this Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system slow shutdown problem. You want to choose the restore point from this list before you had this slow shutdown problem. Then you can choose "Next" and Microsoft Windows eXPerience operating system restore tool will start.

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