Some .exe's hang, must be closed by Task Manager

[mcse924]

Having an issue with W2K SP4 whereby a couple of applicatiosns do not close gracefully and must be terminated via Task Manager. BOTH of these apps access databases on the network (ACT and TrackIT). Anyone know what's up? I've done a bunch of things, including shutting down the virus scanner (McAfee), but still have the issue.

help..please

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[darranagl]

Hello

Are these apps written for Win2k?
Do they use ODBC?
Are there any errors in your Event Log?

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[bcastner]

Use regedit. If the key below does not exist, create it; otherwise edit the value. These are all string values, type REG_SZ

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

AutoEndTasks "1"
HungAppTimeout "1000"
WaitToKillAppTimeout "2000"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
WaitToKillServicesTimeout "2000"

Most of these default to 20000, so a setting of 2000 is a big difference.