logging off and shutting down

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

when i log off and it says saving your settings it takes an unusually long
time and when it finally gives me the option to turn off the computer i click
on turn off and nothing happens. so it ends up with me turning it off
manually.

by the way this is windows xp

help' help'

thank you: jim
 
b said:
when i log off and it says saving your settings it takes an unusually
long time and when it finally gives me the option to turn off the
computer i click on turn off and nothing happens. so it ends up with
me turning it off manually.

by the way this is windows xp
Click to expand...

First make sure the computer is completely virus/malware-free:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

Then go through this shutdown troubleshooter:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

Installing the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service from Microsoft can also
help with slow logoffs.
http://tinyurl.com/2h3yl

Malke
 
If you experience slow logoff (with Saving your settings for most of the
time while logging off), you are having profile unload problems.

If you see a lot of Userenv/1517, Userenv/1524 or Userenv/1500 errors in the
Event Viewer, download and install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service.

This decreased my shutdown time a bunch. Takes any where from 10 to 20
seconds to shutdown.

C:\Program Files\UPHClean\uphclean.exe is added.

The User Profile Hive Cleanup service gets added to Services and
uphclean.exe will run all the time. I am one that doesn't like to have any
extra services running, but I am sold on UPHClean.

Download details: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6d-8912-4e18-b570-42470e2f3582&displaylang=en

UPHClean v1.6d readme.txt
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/8/7/a87b3d05-cd04-4743-a23b-b16645e075ac/readme.txt

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
 
I've been dealing with the samething on my xp home desktop. This problem
just started a couple of months ago. I ran every spyware program imaginable.
Nothing seemed to help. I went through "msconfig" and started playing with
the startup programs. I eventually found that the adobe acrobat reader 7.0
was running in the background even when it was unchecked in the msconfig
startup folder and then rebooted. I uninstalled that program from the
add\remove in the control panel. It didn't uninstall easily. Had to
uninstall it a couple of times and then restart the computer. I switched
back to the adobe acrobat 6.0 version and everything is running the way it is
supposed to. Hope it helps you!
 
Back
Top