my system shuts down slowwwww

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my system shuts down slowwwww

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I have Win XP home 2.0Ghz processor 512MB ram. whhats the prob of the slow shutdowns? I have already scanned for spyware...
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Did you set your pagefile to delete when shutting down?
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make sure you have the lastest chipset drivers if its intel goto http://www.intel.com and http://www.viatech.com to find out what chipset is ur goto my computer control panel system device manager it's under system devices if you see alot intel or via or sis then u know wich one. :D
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Originally posted by mnosteele52
Did you set your pagefile to delete when shutting down?
:)
I'll bite. How do you do that big guy?
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Thanks Norm.
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Ok... I don't know much about pagefile except that it's enabled on my system--so is enabling it's deletion a good or bad thing to do?
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