Seeing Task Host Window message and slowed shutdown

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On shut down receive the following message,”Task host window.Task host is executing shutdown tasks, and stopping tasks that are already running.”
This is causing a delay on shutting down.
This problem has suddenly started.
Regards
Dave

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Any chance you could do a System Restore to before the problem started?

Have you made any changes just prior to the problem Starting?

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Hi Ted
Have done a system restore to yesterday at 11:58, and receive the following message.
The next restore point goes back to December last year.
I did use Revo uninstaller to uninstall a programme, otherwise nothing esle.

32857-system-restore

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You could try to open an Administrative Command Prompt and type: sfc /scannow

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Have run the sfc/scannow, no violations found.

32858-Untitled

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Before starting the shutdown sequence, try going to Task Manager and see what seems to be running. See if something unexpected is running.

Also, try using What’s In Startup or Autorunsto see what is starting with Windows. Is anything unexpected starting?

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Would any of the the tasks shown be something unexpected?
I am asking as I do not have great idea what should be or should’nt be running.

32859-Task-Manager

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Soes that mean I need to remove the taskhost.exe ??? I am so confused. Thanks.

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I see the same thing in the Task Manager. Should I choose to end the process? THANKS.

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There’s a hotfix available which may be relevant: There is a delay when you shut down, restart, or log off a computer that is running Windows 7

I had to uninstall GreenPrint on Windows 7 because it caused delays.

Bruce

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Have not run the hotfix yet. Have now uninstalled the GreenPrint, then did a shutdown, no message!
Maybe that was the problem, although I have been running GreenPrint for quite awhile.
May I just ask what are the correct settings in ‘msconfig’ for the tabs in Windows 7?
Regards
Dave

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In general, the default settings are fine. Please be more specific in your question about Msconfig.

Joe

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I was just wondering if there was something wrong on the settings as shown attached.

32860-Config

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I was just wondering if there was something wrong on the settings as shown attached.

32860-Config

Changing from “Normal Startup” in general is used to troubleshoot only. There is not a good reason to run “Selective startup” as the norm.

Joe

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Changing from “Normal Startup” in general is used to troubleshoot only. There is not a good reason to run “Selective startup” as the norm.

Joe

If the only thing done is to uncheck unneeded items in the startup tab, there’s nothing wrong with leaving normal startup unchecked. Checkig normal startup reenables them. I’ve had PCs doing this for years. Its not worth the hassle to me to clean out the registry locations and it doesn’t hurt anything.

Jerry

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Changing from “Normal Startup” in general is used to troubleshoot only. There is not a good reason to run “Selective startup” as the norm.

Joe

Depends if do not want some things to run at start up slowing down booting. I have quite a few things disabled from starting up with no problems.

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That is exactly what mine looks like as well.

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Thanks Ted,
Regards
Dave

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I had this issue pop up recently. However, since my Windows 7 does shut down after a few seconds delay, I decided not to bother with the hot fix given in BruceR’s reply.

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Have no delay now in shutting down since uninstalling Greenprint.

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There have been a rash of foreign Spam messages posted to the lounge lately. The admins have been very quick to catch and delete them but it probably generated the response notification you received before it got deleted.

Jerry

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@janie237

No, to your first post. taskhost.exe is legitimate. It all depends on what tasks are being hosted.

Maybe, to your second post. It depends on what tasks are being hosted. There are tools available to identify the tasks.

Are you asking because your system is performing badly?

What steps have you taken to identify the problem so far?

If you have a performance issue please tell us more about the PC hardware.

Joe

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