Windows Vista Pc Very Slow

Download then run Speccy (free) and post the resultant url for us, details, this will provide us with information about your computer hardware + any software that you have installed that may explain the present issue/s.To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:. In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot. In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed. Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box. Crap I thought I had it set to automatically update.

When I run Windows update I get the following message. Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running. You may need to restart your computer.

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I did that and still get the message. I had always assumed it was due to the automatic updates thing. And no worries about the delay, you have a life its totally understandable.I think I figured out how to get it to check for updates. I told it to never do it automatically and its searching now. It's been almost a whole year since its updated. Hopefully I will be running updates tonight and then I will run the rest tomorrow.

Autoruns does not look too bad but there are a few things that you could do without running when you boot up, again though these will not be causing the slow shut down times and what we were looking for was any left overs of previously installed programs that may have been causing the problem, we can help with disabling the unnecessary start up programs once we have the present issue resolved.Did you do the suggested Task Manager check, if yes, what was still running when you shut down the computer. Try opening the Task Manager while the computer is actually shutting down, this only if the computer appears to be taking an eternity to shut down, the idea is to see what if anything is still running whilst Windows is trying to shut down.Couple of things that should help improve things for you;1: Download and run TFC from your computer should automatically re-boot on completion but if not do it manually.2: Defrag your HDD with a tidy drive is more efficient please note that I am not suggesting that you use any other product or service at the link.