How to find the cause of Windows 7 hangs at startup or shutdown

In this article we'll show you how to calculate the cause of Windows 7 hangs during shutdown or, conversely, to load the operating system. After receiving information launch status report and the completion of the work, you will be able to more accurately express a technician available to computer problems.

Prolonged computer work can take you a couple of extra minutes for the completion of your Windows. Layfhaker wrote about one of the control methods a common ailment in which the computer is shut down for too long because of the excessively overgrown operating system paging file. But sometimes it happens even more severe cases - Wind does not turn off at all. In this article we'll show you how to calculate the cause of Windows 7 hangs during shutdown or, conversely, to load the operating system.

introduction

Let's sort out some of the processes leading Windu in a pensive state. And help us in this built-in feature in Windows startup detailed status report, shutdown, logon and logoff. Not surprisingly, if you have not seen this report. This default setting is off Windows, and can be activated by using Registry Editor.

We are working with the Windows registry

To start the Registry Editor, simply type in the Windows search box regedit.exe.

Click on the folder tree to the system directory

KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \
CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System

In the right part of the window, locate the file called VerboseStatus. Double-click it in the window that opens, enter a value 1.

If the file VerboseStatus was not, you must create it. To do this, right-click, select create, And then Parameter DWORD (32 bits).

Name your file VerboseStatus and enter a value 1.

Result

As a result, instead of the usual phrases "Shut Down" or "Getting Started" on the screen will be displayed sequentially loaded and close the service and Windows processes. If your system is long delayed or completely freezes at a certain step, you'll know exactly why. Keeping launch status report and completion of itself does not solve the problem on its own, but it bares for technicians to whom you can turn for help.

It is likely that this trick can be done on other Windows operating systems. If so, share your experience in the comments.