shutdown time !

[JeffH]

Does anyone have any good tips for speeding up the
shutdown process in Win2K systems and their successors?

Thanks in advance.

 

[charles kuchar]

The less bells and whistles you have installed, the faster the boot and
shutdown times. charlie

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

In

Does anyone have any good tips for speeding up the
shutdown process in Win2K systems and their successors?

Thanks in advance.

start
run
type
gpedit.msc

navigate to

Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
System
Logon

Maximum retries to unload and update user profile ...

set enabled and to say 5 ... default if not configured is 60!!

also see

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837115&Product=win2000

in particular

"User Profile Hive Cleanup Service"

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en