Windows 10: Shutdown problem

Hi
Suddenly over the last week my PC has gone from closing almost instantly to taking 10 to 15 minutes to shut down. Everything else is normal : boot is fast and all programs are running normally. I'm worried something is going wrong and this is the time to stop it. I tried a remedy after searching the forum involving two command line instructions but it made no difference.
Where do I start please?
John

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Windows 10 can't shutdown because of task host manager

I have upgraded my Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 recently. But, there's a problem occurred which is the shutdown problem. When I want to shutdown the laptop, in the shutdown page will prompt me that the task host manager is running. It will go back to the Desktop
after few minutes ago or won't shutdown unless I click the "Shutdown Anyway".

Will this bring a big problem to my computer and is there any solution that could solve this?

 

Shutdown problem

Do you get a Blue Screen of Death?

 

First thing I would start looking at is "malware/spyware" that might be lurking on the system. Your issue it a good indicator of such malware/spyware is on a system.

 

Try this registry tweak. Create a file with entension .reg, add lines below, save it then double click to merge into the registry:
Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "AutoEndTasks"="1" "HungAppTimeout"="1000"[/quote]

 

Thanks. I ran the paid for malaware bytes anti malware premium updated version and I have paid for Kaspersky internet security. Neither report a problem.

 

I'll try the registry fix. I take it that's a text file I can create in notepad. ( Not too experienced at that stuff...)

 

Yes, use notepad to create it but make sure you change the extension from .txt to .reg

 

Sadly that didn't work. The registry fix reported it had success in loading but the close down still took >10 mins. (Twice) during this time the hard disk is working hard with the light constant not flickering.