slow shutdown

[Guest]

Windows is slow shutting down. I have already downloaded and run the
UPHClean utility and this did not resolve the issue. Any other suggestions?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

It's the tried and true method, but not exactly a barrel of laughs:

"How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316434
--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

Windows is slow shutting down. I have already downloaded and run the
UPHClean utility and this did not resolve the issue. Any other

suggestions?

 

[amendoza]

Reducing Shutdown Time

One of the most common causes of long waits to shutdown is that XP by
default
will wait 20 seconds for an application to shut down! You can decrease
this time
to decrease total shutdown time. Go to Start -> Run -> regedt32, find
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop, change the value of
"WaitToKillAppTimeout" to what you wish (in milliseconds), press "OK,"
and exit
the editor. I set it to 5000 ms usually because that is just enough
time for me
to save any documents that I forgot to save before the shut down.

This is an article from PCMech.com.