xp takes a while to close down 1

[loganswell]

Does anyone know a fix for XP taking a good two minutes or so to shut down? Thanks in anticipation.

Jim

 

[Sympology]

Need more info.

Is it on a domain?

Do you have file Synch running?

At what point does it seem to hang?

Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004

 

[electronicsfreak]

Run scandisc and defrag. Also check your msconfig list. If you are unsure how to do this go to start, run, then type msconfig and hit enter. Click the startup tab. Now just look up each of the items and uncheck ones that arent neccessary. Personally when I go through them the only ones I leave running are antvirus and firewall. However some people do differently. Give those a try and see if it helps.

 

[JockMullin]

Hi, Jim

Usually XP is waiting for apps or services to shut down in an orderly fashion. Also it may be trying to close network connections which are no longer available, for example if you have a mapping on a share over the network and the share is no longer available because that server shut down first.

To see if it is an app or service which is slow to close, try terminating them manually and then shut down XP. If that cures it then you know it is one of the programs you manually terminated.

Prime candidates are desktop search engines, virus and adware scanners and MS Outlook (which should always be shut down manually anyway).

If this is something which has started happening without apparent cause, check for malware.

Jock

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

there is a registry setting you can change, so that you don't get a timeout per process,but the process gets killed immediately.

under hkey current user -> control panel -> desktop
->WaitToKillAppTimeout

default it is 20 sec -> set it to 1 sec or so


rgds,

R.

 

[loganswell]

Hi Stu,

Thanks for the quick response. the problem is not actually on my own computer but that of a friend. He phoned me asking about this [stupidly thinking that I know all about computers and could help him ]

It's a standalone machine and does not AFAIK have any file Sync running. I believe that it 'hangs' at he point where it says 'windows is saving your settings' but I'm not certain. If it's vital you know this I'll phone him and ask.

Thanks again

Jim

 

[electronicsfreak]

Hm you learn something new everyday. Star for you rmgbelgium. Im always interested in learning new registry tweaks. Thanks for that post, going to be making use of that.

 

[loganswell]

Thanks to all who have responded. I'll call him and make the suggestions [although the thought of my friend going in to msconfig and changing stuff scares me a little ]

Jim

 

[electronicsfreak]

msconfig wont affect windows as in hurting it unless by turning antivirus off and then a virus getting on it. Other than that msconfig wont hurt it.

 

[loganswell]

A THANK YOU MESSAGE!

I just wanted to let those who have posted messages to help me, that unchecking the boxes in startup has solved the problem!

Many thanks!!

Jim

 

[electronicsfreak]

n/p, glad to hear that you got it solved. Feel feel to use this forum again in the future if you need help.