After SP2 intall - it is very slow to reboot and shutdown

[Maurice]

After doing a clean install of Windows XP, I downloaded
SP2 and installed it. I now have very slow reboot and
shutdown times (reboot is 90seconds and shutdown is 70
seconds). The periods where it is slow is between the
time when the reboot is initiated and the reboot actually
accurs and the CPU actually shutting down by itself after
initializing the shutdown. This never happened with SP1
and both were very fast before. Has anyone experienced
this and what might be the problem? Should I do a clean
install again to see if some other problem has occured?

Thanks,
Maurice

 

[Rock]

After doing a clean install of Windows XP, I downloaded
SP2 and installed it. I now have very slow reboot and
shutdown times (reboot is 90seconds and shutdown is 70
seconds). The periods where it is slow is between the
time when the reboot is initiated and the reboot actually
accurs and the CPU actually shutting down by itself after
initializing the shutdown. This never happened with SP1
and both were very fast before. Has anyone experienced
this and what might be the problem? Should I do a clean
install again to see if some other problem has occured?

Thanks,
Maurice

Defrag the hard drive. It will take at least three rebboots for the
optimization routines in XP to run and speed things up. The prefetch
folder will be rebuilt after you open each program a few times. That
should speed things up too.

If after all that, it is still slow, then use clean boot troubleshooting
to see what programs might be the culprit. Using this on my system I
found one program loading at boot that was slowing things. I
uninstalled/reinistalled and now back to 30 second boots.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

Shutdown Troubleshooter
http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

 

[Guest]

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Defrag the hard drive. It will take at least three rebboots for the
optimization routines in XP to run and speed things up. The prefetch
folder will be rebuilt after you open each program a few times. That
should speed things up too.

If after all that, it is still slow, then use clean boot troubleshooting
to see what programs might be the culprit. Using this on my system I
found one program loading at boot that was slowing things. I
uninstalled/reinistalled and now back to 30 second boots.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560

How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=316434

Shutdown Troubleshooter
http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

.

I found the problem:
I you go to HKEY LOCAL
MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControl\Control\SessionManager\Memor
yManagement in the registry and change the value of
ClearPageFileAtShutdown from 0 to 1, it will clear the
page file at Windows shutdown and when rebooting. By
doing this, the reboot and shutdown times will greatly
lengthened. Check my new post on Sept 4th around 8:47pm.

Thanks,
Maurice

 

[zag]

I still had this problem with Prefetch shut off.
Went to the Start > Run box and typed in net stop spooler
and then when thru the shutdown very quickly. I don't know
why this works but it has for others. I wrote a small
MS-DOS type batch file and put a shortcut to it on my
desktop. Voila! A one button shutdown in 23 seconds.
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