Saving settings when rebooting or turning off my pc

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When rebooting or turning of my pc, previously it was fairly quick, about a
minute total. But for the past month or so it's taking at least between 4-5
mins just to save the settings. Then another couple of mins to close &
reopen.

I've run virus checks, spy programs, cleaned out my documents yet the
slowness remains. I should have done a system restore at that time, but
neglected too and now I feel it's too late (more than a month).

What might cause it to be so slow when rebooting or turning pc off?
 
LT said:
When rebooting or turning of my pc, previously it was fairly quick, about a
minute total. But for the past month or so it's taking at least between 4-5
mins just to save the settings. Then another couple of mins to close &
reopen.

I've run virus checks, spy programs, cleaned out my documents yet the
slowness remains. I should have done a system restore at that time, but
neglected too and now I feel it's too late (more than a month).

What might cause it to be so slow when rebooting or turning pc off?
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Also, any EASY suggestions or recommendations to fix the problem as I'm very
computer technically challenged:)
 
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

To automatically install it (you need uphclean-setup.msi):
- Double click the setup.msi

The service is set to automatically start when the computer boots so you
will not need to start it manually.

In fact, this MSKB article recommends:
"To resolve this issue, use the Microsoft User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
(UPHClean). UPHClean monitors the computer while Windows is unloading user
profiles and forces resources that are open to close. Therefore, the
computer can unload and reconcile user profiles."
from...
Troubleshooting profile unload issues
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837115

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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