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Rogeee

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Mother Puss Bucket, Winblows Home edition,updated with SP2 no problem (about two months ago),decided to see if there were any new security updates available,sure enough there were so I downloaded them,rebooted and everything is fine until I try a shutdown,before the update it took about 10 seconds,now it hangs for almost three minutes before shutting down,anyone have any ideas what the hell is going on ?

Most of these patches were security fixes for all the damn holes in Winblows.
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Messanger
Media player
 
how many times have you tried rebooting and shutting down... sometimes windows will finish installing patches before turning off.
 
I checked the event viewer,could not find any issues there 😕


porcorosso
You are the man, thank you very much 😀
 
You're welcome. I hope it works out well for you.

I can't imagine why Microsoft doesn't just roll that thing into a critical (or at least an optional) update -- or at least advertise its availability more aggressively. I've never seen it do any harm, and I've seen it solve a lot of issues caused by apps / services that don't like to die quietly at shutdown time.
 
Originally posted by: porcorosso
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I make this Microsoft utilit (Actually, it's a service.) a standard part of any Windows XP installation.
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Now that you mentioned it I have used this before. There was a system with this kind of delay at shutdown and there was an error in Event Viewer that indicated the profile or account (can't remember) wasn't shut down correctly. This did fix it.

I think I'm going to add this to my default XP installs as well. Thanks porcorosso! 😀 :thumbsup:

 
Yes, I've run into enough systems that require the aid of this service that I just decided to make it part of "the kit". 😉 I'm happy to be of assistance in reminding you of it.

I even got lazy once or twice and was reminded to install it when I saw the indication you mentioned in the Event Viewer while doing periodic checks there during the system configuration process. A warning in the logs that there's probably a service running under a user account instead of SYSTEM is usually the clue.
 
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