XP hangs on saving settings screen on shutdown

[Guest]

Toshiba Tecra Core duo about 18 months old, original factory windows
installation.
2 days ago on shut down it started hanging up on the "savings settings"
screen. It goes through the shut down sequence, then starts the hard drive
looking for something, and continues til I hold the power button down.
No hardware or software changes took place that day
Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

SHUTDOWN HANGS ON “SAVING YOUR SETTINGSâ€
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

 

[Guest]

According to Windows update, I have all updates installed. If there is a fix
that needs to be reinstalled, the article has now wasted an hour of my time
without getting me to it.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Toshiba Tecra Core duo about 18 months old, original factory windows
installation.
2 days ago on shut down it started hanging up on the "savings
settings" screen. It goes through the shut down sequence, then
starts the hard drive looking for something, and continues til I
hold the power button down.
No hardware or software changes took place that day
Any suggestions?

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

Also - what startups do you have running?

What about antivirus products - what do you utilize?

Finally - have you scanned with several different antispyware products to
make sure you are clean? (Superantispyware, Lavasoft Ad-Aware and Spybot
Search and Destroy should be a free combination that cleans you up pretty
decently.)

 

[Guest]

AVG antivirus, AdAware runs in background and scans 1 a week, Spybot runs
every day at lunch after JKdefrag, which runs after AVG.

Startups are basically Trillian, googletalk, and whatever seems to be needed
for the system, which is a wired network at the office and wireless at home.

I'll try that link now

 

[Gerry]

Not a guaranteed solution but you might try:

Download and install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
Download details: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
http://snipurl.com/5b61

UPHClean v1.5e readme.txt
http://snipurl.com/ko8m

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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