Re: Takes forever to shut down.

Rock wrote:
"John Corliss" <jcorliss@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:135arjeah6pmd97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Note that my problem is NOT that the computer reboots when I want it to shut down. The problem is that the computer takes an extremely prolonged amount of time to shut down.

I've Googled around and found several suggestions like the ones at this site:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1590&page=32

but none of them worked.
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I tried installing and running (it autoruns in the background) the Microsoft User Profile Hive Cleanup Service:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en

or if you prefer:

http://tinyurl.com/2h3yl

and although it helps, what it does is to speed up the shutdown time consistently but it still takes longer to shut down than I want and does so every time. At least before, the computer would shut off quickly once in a while. As a result, I have removed UPHCS and now am hoping that somebody in this group can help me figure out what the problem is.

By the way, I'm not the only person having this problem. Ever since Vista came out, I've noticed that more and more of my friends and family members who run XP (Pro OR Home) are having the same problem.

Resources to help troubleshoot shutdown problems in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308029/en-us

Good one, but none of the symptoms they describe apply.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

Yes, I found this one too. Have it bookmarked for future reference.

Apparent "correlation" with release of Vista is specious.

Prolly so. 80)>

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John Corliss
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