Slow restart and shutdown

[Maxine]

Although my system is perfectly fine in terms of speed
when it's running, shutdown and restart are terribly slow.

When I click on shut down, the blue screen (not of death)
pops up, giving the usual "Saving your settings...", but
this screen lasts up to 4 minutes, possibly more (I
haven't kept count), when I'm restarting. How can I fix
this?

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Maxine,

Enable a Proper Shutdown - Download the fix from Kelly's site:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/shutdown.reg

SHUTDOWN WORKS, BUT IT'S REAL SLOW
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

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Although my system is perfectly fine in terms of speed
when it's running, shutdown and restart are terribly slow.

When I click on shut down, the blue screen (not of death)
pops up, giving the usual "Saving your settings...", but
this screen lasts up to 4 minutes, possibly more (I
haven't kept count), when I'm restarting. How can I fix
this?

 

[Geoff]

-----Original Message-----
Although my system is perfectly fine in terms of speed
when it's running, shutdown and restart are terribly slow.

When I click on shut down, the blue screen (not of death)
pops up, giving the usual "Saving your settings...", but
this screen lasts up to 4 minutes, possibly more (I
haven't kept count), when I'm restarting. How can I fix
this?
.
This is only a suggestion but there is a think called

windows power tools and there is a program in there that
allows you to speed up start up and shutdown procedures.
I must tell you these programs are not certified by
microsoft but I have not had any problems with them.