Pro vs. Home shutdown

[Guest]

Hi all. I have dual boot, XP Home and Pro. I've had the Home running for a year or so but just added the Pro partition. The shutdown in Pro is slow compared to Home. I've read a lot of the posts here and have applied several of the regedits and MS patch to no avail. It's slow, but not as slow as some report. I'd say the "saving ..." screen displays for 20-25 seconds or so, and the drive light is on, then it shuts off. Home only shows this screen for a few seconds then shuts down, much quicker for sure

My questions >> Is this just a quirk of Pro or is there indeed something wrong? Could it be just the extra networking stuff in Pro taking it's time to shutdown

This is a stand alone PC, no network involved except for the cable connection. P2.4, 512 mb RAM, etc ..

Thanks.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

On a fresh install of XP Pro i can usually shut down in 10 seconds. However,
once all of the updates have been installed this jumps to 30-32 seconds.
I've put it down a quirk of the software. But, as you say, Pro does have
networking drivers etc, so maybe that is the cause of the addition time
delay. To be honest i haven't really explored it. I've just accepted the
fact that it takes longer to shut down than Home. Now i come to think of it,
though, Windows Server 2003 Standard edition shuts down faster than Pro.
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John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
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Hi all. I have dual boot, XP Home and Pro. I've had the Home running for a

year or so but just added the Pro partition. The shutdown in Pro is slow
compared to Home. I've read a lot of the posts here and have applied several
of the regedits and MS patch to no avail. It's slow, but not as slow as some
report. I'd say the "saving ..." screen displays for 20-25 seconds or so,
and the drive light is on, then it shuts off. Home only shows this screen
for a few seconds then shuts down, much quicker for sure.

My questions >> Is this just a quirk of Pro or is there indeed something

wrong? Could it be just the extra networking stuff in Pro taking it's time
to shutdown?

This is a stand alone PC, no network involved except for the cable

connection. P2.4, 512 mb RAM, etc ...