Shutdown problems

[Guest]

Sometimes the only way to shut my computer off is to logg off and go to the
log off screen and click on shut down computer? Sometime the computer will
take up to 30 minutes to shut off when I click shut down rather than logg
off, but this is not everytime I shut down. It is intermittent.

Any Ideas?

 

[Guest]

Sometimes the only way to shut my computer off is to logg off and go to the
log off screen and click on shut down computer? Sometime the computer will
take up to 30 minutes to shut off when I click shut down rather than logg
off, but this is not everytime I shut down. It is intermittent.

Any Ideas?

Have a look in the Event Viewer for error messages(X) that can shed some
light and post it back in your next post by performing the following and also
the System File Checker (SFC) sfc /scannow:
Open a Notepad, customize or minimize to the taskbar as you will need it
later for this step to copy the error message on it.
Open a run command and type in:
eventvwr.msc click [OK] you will get the Event viewer control Panel.
click on each of these:
Application
System
Security
Look in the right Pane/window for error message with red (X) or Yellow
exclamation mark /!\ , double click each one to get more info about the
causer.
On the Event error properties message you will see:
Up Arrow
Down arrow
Two pages
Click on the two pages to copy the error message then bring up the Notepad
you opened earlier and right click on the first line and select Paste from
the list, this will paste the error message on a Notepad.
Please don't duplicate the error message one of each kind will be sufficient.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
HTH.
nass

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

Sometimes the only way to shut my computer off is to logg off and go to the

log off screen and click on shut down computer? Sometime the computer will
take up to 30 minutes to shut off when I click shut down rather than logg
off, but this is not everytime I shut down. It is intermittent.

Any Ideas?

Sure. Here's a couple of less tweaks to make shutdown fast. You have
to be comfortable with editing the registry a bit to make the
following tips work. They're not going to hose your system and are
reversible. Grab a pen and paper to write down your settings as you
go.

Here goes:

Go to Start > Run and enter REGEDIT and press OK. This fires up the
registry editor.

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. Edit the
following keys:

1) AutoEndTasks: Default is 0, make it 1

2) ForegroundLockTimeout: Default is 20000, make it 0

3) HungAppTimeoutefault is 5000, try 1000, if it's still slow, try
500. I don't suggest going anything lower than 250 though as it could
really make programs / services that need a momentd or two to end
act...funny.

4) WaitToKillAppTimeout: Default is 20000, try 1000, if it's still
slow, try 500. I don't suggest going anything lower than 250 though as
it could really make programs / services that need a moment or two to
end act...funny.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control

1) WaitToKillServiceTimeout: Default is 20000, try 2000. I don't use
this setting personally and it's questionable whether XP supports it
or not.

When you finish, reboot. Log into XP and then do a shutdown and see
how long it take.

If some of the keys above don't exists, just create them using the
right mouse button.

#1 is a String Value
#2 is DWORD value
#3 is a String value
#4 is a String value

Good luck.

- Thee Chicago Wolf