Delaying shutdown on NT4

[TechLad]

Anyone know of a way to slow down (yes I did say slow down!) the shutdown time on NT?

I've looked at all the bits concerning killing processes etc and they aren't really what I am looking for.

I simply need to delay the time out, it has to do with roaming profiles not being written back before the machine closes down the network.

Thanks, Jeff.

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[itsp1965]

If you will be doing this using a batch file you can assign the amount of time you need before shutdwon takes affect by using the shutdown.exe util found in the NT Resource kit. You can have scheduled job that looks something like this;

net stop "serviceA"
net stop "serviceB"
other commands you may want to add
shutdown /T:<no of secs> /R

 

[TechLad]

Im actually talking about clicking on start\shutdown locally.

I'm tempted to introduce clearing the pagefile as that will introduce a delay anyway.

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