System shutdown popup?

[Guest]

I recently had to reformat my harddrive due to 2 years of trash buildup and
other assorted stuff. Anyway after doing a clean install of windows XP Home I
now get this anoying popup whenever I shutdown or restart my computer that
states:

" This system is shutting down. Please save any work in progress
and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was initiated
by[computer name/My name]

Time before shutdown: 00:00:30

Message:
(THIS AREA IS BLANK)"


Before I reformatted I had found a way to disable this popup for atleast the
past year and a half. For the life of me I can't remember how. If anyone
knows please help this is really anoying.
Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[David Matson]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability\ShutdownReasonUI

that's probably set to 1 (but I've only seen this in server 2003)
set it to 0

-matson

 

[Joshua Smith [MSFT]]

Actually this sound more like the symptoms to the Blaster family of worms.
Have you reinstalled all the Windows Updates and Service Packs?

Joshua Smith
OpenGL Test Lab
Microsoft
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability\ShutdownReasonUI

that's probably set to 1 (but I've only seen this in server 2003)
set it to 0

-matson

I recently had to reformat my harddrive due to 2 years of trash buildup
and other assorted stuff. Anyway after doing a clean install of windows
XP Home I now get this anoying popup whenever I shutdown or restart my
computer that states:

" This system is shutting down. Please save any work in progress
and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was
initiated by[computer name/My name]

Time before shutdown: 00:00:30

Message:
(THIS AREA IS BLANK)"


Before I reformatted I had found a way to disable this popup for atleast
the past year and a half. For the life of me I can't remember how. If
anyone knows please help this is really anoying.
Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[David Matson]

yes, you (Josua Smith) are correct... the ShutdownReasonUI toggle brings
up an extra area below the shutdown/restart/logoff combobox to enter a
log of why you're shutting down. I got confused when I read that
there's a message area, but computers with that toggle set to "1" will
have a "comment:" area that's blank (labeled comment, not message).
Ignore my advice, shelbyclan!

-matson

Actually this sound more like the symptoms to the Blaster family of worms.
Have you reinstalled all the Windows Updates and Service Packs?

Joshua Smith
OpenGL Test Lab
Microsoft
-----

Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability\ShutdownReasonUI

that's probably set to 1 (but I've only seen this in server 2003)
set it to 0

-matson

I recently had to reformat my harddrive due to 2 years of trash buildup
and other assorted stuff. Anyway after doing a clean install of windows
XP Home I now get this anoying popup whenever I shutdown or restart my
computer that states:

" This system is shutting down. Please save any work in progress
and log off. Any unsaved changes will be lost. This shutdown was
initiated by[computer name/My name]

Time before shutdown: 00:00:30

Message:
(THIS AREA IS BLANK)"


Before I reformatted I had found a way to disable this popup for atleast
the past year and a half. For the life of me I can't remember how. If
anyone knows please help this is really anoying.
Thanks for any suggestions.