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re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout
Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 10:15 pm
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Posted by Joshua Ebersol (1 messages posted)


If your network uses roaming profiles (and it sounds like it does), then certain files get bigger as time goes by. For example, if you use outlook, then depending how your network is set up, your outlook.pst file may be saved to and from a domain controller every time you log on and off.


On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 4:48 pm, mike wrote:
>Matt:
>We use roaming profiles on our network and I have seen this also. I usually hit the
>ctrl-alt-del keys again. This takes it out of the "hanging" mode. It works almost
>everytime.
>
>


>On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 12:01 pm, Matt Clapp wrote:
>On a fresh installation of Windows 2000, logging out from a user account is quick.
> The message "Saving your settings" appears for a few seconds at most.
>
>My question is, what happens to make logging out take much longer? After a while
>of using my account, for no apparent reason logging out just starts taking longer.
> I timed how long the "Saving your settings" message lasts, and it is almost exactly
>1 minute every time now. It makes me suspicious that maybe something is going wrong
>and Windows is waiting for something to time out.
>
>Does anybody know a solution to this problem?
>
>thanks,
>Matt


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re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout (mike: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 4:48 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout (Matt Clapp: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 12:01 pm)
-re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout (mike: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 4:48 pm)
*re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout (Joshua Ebersol: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 10:15 pm)
-re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout (Curt R: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 11:18 pm)
*re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout (Ken Lotterman: Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 7:11 am)
*re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout (David DeSimone: Mon, Dec 31, 2001, 9:47 pm)
*re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout (richard: Wed, Apr 2, 2003, 3:25 pm)
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