Acer Nitro 5 takes long time to shutdown

rajn

Hi! I have a acer nitro 5 laptop. Whenever i use laptop for long time or download large files and try to shutdown, it takes longer time to shutdown. It was ok few days ago.

It'd be of great help if someone knows the solution to this problem. Thanks

Alejandro_AC

Hi @rajn surely some application is preventing the closing, as you say that this has happened recently, do you remember which applications were installed recently?

Thank you.
All the best.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/685104/acer-nitro-5-takes-long-time-to-shutdown

Refresh your system image and repair corrupted files. Go online and make sure that the internet is working OK, paste this line in the Command Prompt opened as administrator:

Dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

This should end successfully.

Then paste this in the same Command Prompt window: SFC /scannow

SFC will find and repair corrupted files but you should rerun the command till you see: No integrity violations found.

Reboot and delete your temp. files with Storage Sense (assuming you have W10-11). Type Storage Sense in the Search bar and let it scan your drives. Delete files you don't need (Download folder) and click on the temp icon, this may take some time if you never cleaned your temp. folders in Windows. It may show hundreds of GBs of redundant files like OLD DOS and update files that can all be safely deleted. After that Optimize your boot drive (C:\) (defrag or trim). Open Task Manager and check your Startup apps, disable the ones you are not familiar with or don't need. Finally uninstall Mcafee, AV (Windows10-11 Defender is all you need) Battery Limiting and Bloatware, most have "agents" running at the background that "chat" online telemetric) or keep track of your file history that slows down the Shutdown process, also not closing all your programs when shutdown stalls the process.

Tip: Instead of Shutdown try hibernate, it is superfast, same results as a normal shutdown and resumes where you left off, so any program you forgot to close like Word or Excel will be open. You will need to activate hibernate in Power Plan "Change what closing the lid does" and "Change settings that are currently unavailable" as hibernating is deeply buried for some obscure reason. Uncheck fast Startup but check Hibernate. Hibernate will now show as an option in the Shutdown menu (Start).