My computer has regressed over time in performance. Maybe it's because I have installed a lot of programs I'm not sure but the os is slow to shut down. I get message Waiting for background programs to close and it was explorer.exe. As matter fact explorer.exe is really causing issues in os. Crashing frequently, hogging resources, its frustrating! What is wrong with the os? I know Windows 7 is not perfect os but is this normal?
Regressed is not right word sorry. Actually windows 7 performs reasonably well it's just when it starts up or shutdowns it takes more time now then ever before. I guess it's normal when I first installed the os it started up and shutdown in no time.
"sfc /scannow" from elevated command prompt to verify system files. How many apps. in the system tray? (I know on shutdown my torrent client takes a bit).
Do not forget this a little thing - namely, the default is set to The waiting time for processes to end - 15 sec The waiting time for serviceses to stop - 15 sec Recommended is about 5 seconds, not more. Sometimes even have been recommended no more than 3 seconds. Also Disable Updating Group Policy During Startup Windows logging to system crash Cancel Disk Check when Windows starts, You can do it manually or set to delayed start
Good News everyone. I found out the culprit that was slowing down the os. It was this strange file called sqlwriter.exe. It was located in roaming app data folder and I deleted it. Since I deleted the file the os is noticeably faster. It did not appear to be a virus, it was some file from Microsoft that somehow got on my computer perhaps through windows update I guess. Glad I solved issue
It allows for backup and restore applications to operate in the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) framework. Hopefully you won't need that.