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Slow shutdown on Windows Devices, Fixed by Re-installing Windows
Open Command Prompt as an administrator and run: sfc /scannow
This will scan for and fix corrupted system files.
Check for Malware:
Use Windows Defender or another trusted antivirus program to perform a full system scan.
Disable Startup Programs:
Open Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc), go to the Startup tab, and disable unnecessary programs.
I am convinced that for any long term Windows computer user, the very concept of "Re-installing Windows" is not a solution that one would want to go through more than once. May be you are not using your computer like the masses I represent, but kindly understand that "Re-installing Windows" is the very last thing I ever want to go through again. Because it destroys or makes unusable ANY OTHER PROGRAM OR SOFTWARE EVER INSTALLED. Even if someone is diligent enough to save a copy of every file onto a cloud or other back-up solution, the problem of having to re-install every piece of software that was on there originally is enough to cause anyone to put all sorts of curses on the person who came up with the "Windows Registry". Because, it takes a week out of anyone's life to re-install every
program!
Luckily, like Andy Kaufmann ("Here I am to save the day"), I am available to provide a solution to this problem: "Each and every Windows application you install and use, should be asked, pushed, caused to retain a backup of every piece of info it ever recorded onto the Windows Registry. Then, when stuff happens to the Windows OS, and it indeed needs to be re-installed, each previously installed Windows compatible software could be programmed to put all the required Windows Registry info back into the Windows Registry, where it resided before.
This WOULD WORK, except that MSFT does not want to do anything smart.
If for unknown software reasons, it does not work for one or the other software,
then only those FEW programs needed to be re-installed.
I say: EASY, PEASY, EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THIS, except Microsoft.
Now, the question of whether I am genius or idiot has not been resolved, but I
just throw out ideas to improve stuff, for any other genius to try it.
You are free to tell me why it could not possibly work. I hear you! Microsoft does
not hear me, but I hear you! Prove me to be the idiot I sometimes have an inkling to be, and I shut up and stand corrected.
