Saving my settings

[Rick Blackthorn]

When I restart or shut down my win2K system, it seems like it's
taking long - about 30 seconds or so - to "save my settings".

What *are* my settings, where are they, and, whatever they are,
do they need to be saved? What if one doesn't want to save
their settings? Is there a way to do that? And if there is an
ethernet connection on broadband, is that likely to increase the
time to save those settings?

 

[Gary Smith]

When I restart or shut down my win2K system, it seems like it's
taking long - about 30 seconds or so - to "save my settings".

What *are* my settings, where are they, and, whatever they are,
do they need to be saved? What if one doesn't want to save
their settings? Is there a way to do that? And if there is an
ethernet connection on broadband, is that likely to increase the
time to save those settings?

In this case, your settings are the registry changes that you explicitly
or implicitly made while your system was running. There is no option not
to save them. You could of course prevent the save by simply powering off
the machine instead of logging off or shutting down, but that's a very
risky operation that will eventually lead to corrupted data and possibly
require a reinstallation of the OS to set things right.

I don't know whether an ethernet connection can lead to an increase in the
time required to rewrite the registry. There appear to be several
different causes, all traceable to bugs in system components. Some have
been corrected by subsequent updates; others have been introduced by
system updates. The usual cause is the failure of a system component to
release a registry handle so that the hive can be rewritten. If that
doesn't mean anything to you, don't worry about it.

See this page for information on the problem, including a list of possible
symptoms and a link to get a Microsoft-supplied program that will cure the
problem.

http://www.jsiinc.com/subp/tip7800/rh7815.htm

 

[Rick Blackthorn]

See this page for information on the problem, including a list of possible
symptoms and a link to get a Microsoft-supplied program that will cure the
problem.

http://www.jsiinc.com/subp/tip7800/rh7815.htm

Thanks for the info and the URL; I'll see what transpire.

Rick