Re: Delayed shutdown problem

bxf wrote:
On Feb 28, 7:31 pm, "needlove" <cru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently installed XPsp2 on a 80 GB IDE HHD on two of three ntfs
partitions. One installation with ACPI the other is standard PC (I toggle
ACPI in BIOS before starting the respective OS). The drive tests fine and
is run in Ultra DMA 5 by both OS's

Both installs are virus/malware free, up-to-date with MS and have very few
third party programs installed, Lavasoft firewall, Adaware, Spybot and
Nod32 av.

They both exibit the same problem on shutdown. The "welcome screen" says
"Windows is shutting down...". The hard disk activity light is on at first
then off for 30 seconds. then it blinks on and windows shuts down.

My main installation of XP in on the same computer on SATA Raid drive and
it shuts down in a few seconds and I have tons of games and programs on it
and MS services are configured the same.

I googled shutdown problems and and eliminated the most common; malware,
pagefile, nvidia drivers, hibernate, etc..

I did a clean boots with msconfig and ONLY when I disable MS services did
they shutdown normally (have to reactivate windows with a call to MS) I
re-clean booted dozens of times trying to pinpoint the MS service
responsible but the delayed shutdown would only stop when a large group of
MS services were disabled. It isn't just one sevice responsible.

I tried disabling groups of services, those that come before RPC service
and those after, alphabetically, but so far that has failed to narrow it
down. The shutdown delay, when it occurs, is always about 30 seconds.

Booting Windows with no MS services is painfully slow and each change to
msconfig requires two starts and shutdowns, one to make the change and one
to test it. Changes to services don't take place until you reboot.

Depending on whether or not you have some specific messages in your
Event Viewer, you may want to look into UPHCLEAN, which solves
shutdown delays caused by user profile not unloading.

this could actually be your AV proxy not shutting down within a given period. I had a similar issue with Norton 2006 (because of an out-of-date engine). If it shuts down in about 15 seconds, I would not worry. If it takes longer than a half a minute, you might try a manual shut down of utility programs (such as AV) from the task manager. Then shut down the PC and write back and tell us if that speeds up the shutdown process.

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