product registering, shutdown

[T.Strothmann]

I had problems with a slow shutdown. Visited a microsoft newsgroup. Someone
recommended to run msconfig and deactivate certain services
in order to find the reason - familiar to me from Win 98, but without the
additional hassle as follows: at that time Windows said that the hardware
has changed and required renewing the product registration within 3 days.
This failed first because the microsoft reg site claimed that the code
number is already in use (sure, but the PC hasn't changed). Called the
service line, entered the 54-digit number (don't remind me of that session)
which also did not work. Finally a service representative gave me a
different release code, which worked - praise the lord. Took me half an hour
and I was in a bloodrush, after going through all this.

My question: how can you follow the above recommendation (the user specific
startup) without triggering this crazy mechanism?

Thanks,

T.
(Thomas, for those who really stick to the word of the netiquette)

 

[T.Strothmann]

Hi all,

let me try it once more: in order to find the services which might keep the
computer from shutting down XP Pro. SP2 correctly, what else can I do other
than conveniently switch off these services inside "msconfig"? This
obviously ruins the registration information, and I don't want to take the
risk of going through this messy procedure called re-registration ever
again. What else can I do to locate the culprits? Will temporary elimination
of the service entries inside the registry be any good?

Tom