Take out the trash!

When I shut my laptop down it takes forever to get from selecting Shutdown on the menu to it actually asking what kind of shutdown I wanted. A quick look at filemon revealed the problem – on shutdown Windows is scanning every file in the recycle bin. And having just deleted a very large source tree with thousands of files that scan was taking forever.

After taking out the trash my laptop now shuts down at a more normal rate.

Tags: fail, shutdown, Windows

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