Slow SHutdown

[Nebor]

I'm using Windows XP w/ the specs in my sig... When I go to shutdown, it acts like I didn't tell it to shutdown... If I move the mouse over the system tray after a little while, some of the things will dissappear, but we're basically looking at about a 3 minutes shutdown or so. You can't run anything or open any applets, because it will tell you that this windows station is shutting down.... Any ideas? Usually the last things I see in my system tray is the logitech mouse icon, and the volume control applet icon. I can't open up ALT CTRL DEL because that gets no response after I go to shutdown, so I have no clue was processes are running towards the end.

 

[dkozloski]

I had a similar problem that I cured by reformatting FAT32 rather than NTFS. Evidently on shutdown NTFS does a bunch of indexing and attribute writing that dominates the system for quite a while. At least if I just hit the power button to put it out of its misery, on the next startup, it went through 10 minutes of disk cleanup involving attributes and the like.

 

[bjc112]

Try this

START -> RUN -> gpedit.msc

Administrative Templates -> System -> Logon

Maximuim number of times to unload and update profile ->set to "enabled"

Set the number of tries to zero

 

[Nebor]

I have XP not 2000. I did turn of drive indexing, which should help.

 

[foxkm]

Try this:

Changes these Registry values (all which are 20000) to something smaller like 5000

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Pannel\Desktop\WaitToKillAppTimeout
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WaitToKillServiceTimeout
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet003\Control\WaitToKillServiceTimeout


These should speed up shutdown.

 

[jacktesterson]

Do you have any 3rd party software forcing Windows to clear its page file during shutdown?

 

[fredtam]

If you have Logitech software it will fail to unload.

 

[Nebor]

Yeah, I use itouch for my Elite keyboard.