Windows 7 is a little slow on shutting down but not too bad. Make sure all programs are closed out and your Internet history and cache are cleaned out before you shut down. Mine takes a couple of minutes maybe to shut down but that's just the way 7 is. Anything longer than that, then you need to clean out old files and such to clean things up.Windows 8 is faster but a problem child like Vista was. Upgrade to 10 at the end of the month as it has the best features of XP, 7 , and the speed of 8.
