Slow Shutdown

[Stan Weiss]

After installing the Windows 2000 and Office patches yesterday my
machine now sits on the "Saving Your Settings" screen for about a minute
on Shutdown or Restart.
Thanks,
Stan

 

[Steve Parry]

After installing the Windows 2000 and Office patches yesterday my
machine now sits on the "Saving Your Settings" screen for about a minute
on Shutdown or Restart.
Thanks,
Stan

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