Re: delay shutdown until HD writes files?

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From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:13:44 -0600

Hi,

See if this helps:

This edit automatically ends tasks and timeouts that prevent programs from
shutting down and clears the Paging File on Exit.

Auto End Tasks to Enable a Proper Shutdown (Line 76)
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"hd-shutdown" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> What patch etc. do I need so that XP-pro sp1 will delay
> shutdown until the drive completely writes everything.
>
> I've noticed many times that during shutdown, there's a
> long pause by XP, then a lot of frantic disk head movement
> and then the drives shut down the instant that's down, or
> perhaps even before it's down.
>
> And occasionally when I boot up later, it says it didn't
> shutdown properly and checks my drive.  Proof that XP
> isn't waiting for the drive to flush its cache.
>
> I know W98, W98se and Wme used to need a patch to delay
> shutdown until XP's cache & and hard drive cache was
> flushed.
>
> XP shouldn't need that.
>
> But apparently it does.
>
> Is there a patch?  Is there a registry entry I can modify
> to increase the shutdown flush delay?
>
> Is there any way I can manually force everything to flush
> before I shutdown XP?
>

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