Hi every one,
I was having trouble with my pc shut down, it was taking some 5 mins just to actually bring the shutdown, cancel etc to come up. So a mate of mine suggested a registry fix. I purchased Uniblu and ran the scan and it came up with the following:
.System Related Errors: 453, High Damage Level
.User Related Errors: 318, High Damage Level

After I fixed these errors now my AVAST & Malwarebytes are no longer on the bottom RIGHT of my screen. Could the reg fix have buggered them up. Malwarebytes says that it is running when i click on it, but Avast only lets me do scans and I am not sure if I am protected with my AV. Any suggestions would be good.

thanx

Ps what actually causes registry errors?
I have also updated my Avast & Malwarebytes.There were no registry errors and you should not be using registry utilities (booster??). See if the utility has an "undo" feature. Then do yourself a favor and uninstall it.Allan,
          I had to do a system restore, and that seemed to do the trick. I will not be messing with such apps again.

Cheers for the adviceIf your system continues to take a while shutting down post back and let's see if we can help.Hopefully you can get your money back for a hard earned lesson...although we preach against registry tools here daily people still fall for it...
Allan,
         I have just tried the shut down and timed it with the stopwatch on me phone and it took
 1:59.85 just to bring the restart, shutdown etc.

I had this problem some time AGO and you responded to my post, telling me to do regedit
and a load of other stuff, this fixed the prob, but then it came back. I used to use AVG and only
used the Add/Remove to take it off, then one day I was following a post with broni and he had posted a link that removed all the RUBBISH that it left behind.

This seemed to cure it, but for sum strange reason it has started again. I end up loosing my temper and patience, so i just switch it off by the socket.

hope this info is of sum use.You do still have an anti virus utility running at all times, don't you? If not, you need to install one and keep it resident, and you should go to the malware section of this forum and submit your logs. As for the procedure to speed up shutdown, it's below:

1) Make sure "clear pagefile at shutdown" is not enabled:
start - run - regedit
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]

Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown VALUE to 0


2) Start - Run - Regedit
Navigate to the following Registry key:
HKEY CURRENT USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Double click on the AutoEndTasks entry and replace the 0 with a 1 in the Value data text box

For the next two, if the dword value indicated does not exist, create it:

Double click on the WaitToKillAppTimeout entry in the right pane and change the Value data to 2000

Double click on the HungAppTimeout entry in the right pane and change the Value data to 1000

Reboot

3) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
Right-click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout and change it to 2000
Allan,
          how do i do this?

 Make sure "clear pagefile at shutdown" is not enabled: Quote from: Allan on January 26, 2010, 01:46:55 PM

1) Make sure "clear pagefile at shutdown" is not enabled:
start - run - regedit
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]

Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown value to 0