Slow shutdown after Win2K SP4 installed

[James L. Sims]

After updating Windows 2000 to SP4 my computer is taking about ten
minutes to shut down. It's always been slow to shut down (a little
over a minute) but the lag time has increased significantly since
updating to SP4.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim

Athlon XP2100
GA-7VAXP mainboard
1 gig RAM
Various USB?Firewire devices

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

After updating Windows 2000 to SP4 my computer is taking about ten
minutes to shut down. It's always been slow to shut down (a little
over a minute) but the lag time has increased significantly since
updating to SP4.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

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