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Slow (or incomplete?) Shutdowns, UPH Clean
Friday, March 7, 2008 at 2:38 pm
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Posted by RNFolsom (2 messages posted)


After seeing a 2003 thread about an incomplete Win2k shutdown,
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1069004395

and then doing a search for "slow shutdown" (which did 
generate some relevant results), 
I could find no reference to a MS utility solution.

So I am posting what I know as a new thread, 
to which I will link in the 2003 thread.

The problem of very slow Win2k shutdowns (and possibly 
also incomplete shutdowns that have to be completed by 
using the computer's off/on switch, but that's a guess  
on my part), has now been dealt with by a MS utility, 
UPHClean (User Profile Hive Cleanup), apparently 
written (or at least documented) by Robin Caron of MS.

In my case, the slow shutdown problem arose in 
October or November 2006, and I suspect (but am 
not sure) that it was caused by an MS Windows 
Update (for Win2k Sp4), but I don't know which one.

To learn more about this MS UPHClean utility (latest 
version apparently 1.6d) and/or to download it, go to
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en

To get Robin Caron's very useful and quite detailed 
April 2005 Readme [in which the fourth content 
paragraph includes the statement 
"This problem . . . can be caused by improper coding 
either in Microsoft software or 3rd party software 
(e.g. printer drivers, virus scanner service, etc)."], go to
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/8/7/a87b3d05-cd04-4743-a23b-b16645e075ac/readme.txt

Roger Folsom



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