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re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 4:48 pm Posted by mike (2 messages posted) 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 10:15 pm 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 11:18 pm Posted by Curt R (1315 messages posted) The time for it to save your settings depends on several things. What app's you have open, what all needs to be saved, whether or not you've made any changes to your system etc. One minute isn't so bad..........I wouldn't worry about it too much, that's pretty normal. 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout Saturday, December 29, 2001 at 7:11 am Posted by Ken Lotterman (1 messages posted) It's NOT normal. It's an annoyance that Micro$oft hasn't bothered fixing. It's NOT normal. On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 11:18 pm, Curt R wrote: > The time for it to save your settings depends on several things. What app's you >have open, what all needs to be saved, whether or not you've made any changes to >your system etc. One minute isn't so bad..........I wouldn't worry about it too >much, that's pretty normal. > > >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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout Monday, December 31, 2001 at 9:47 pm Posted by David DeSimone (6 messages posted) You will find that, whenever you see Windows hang like this during logout, if you later go into the Event Viewer and look at the Application Log, you'll find an error message with a timestamp that coincides with the logout. It will say this: Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Description: Windows cannot unload your registry file. If you have a roaming profile, your settings are not replicated. Contact your administrator. DETAIL - Access is denied. , Build number ((2195)). When searching Microsoft's support articles, you can find grudging admittance of problems similar to this one. I found article Q285192 to be closest to a description of the problem, though it still misses the mark. The article states that "A supported fix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem described in this article and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem." "To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the fix." Otherwise, "if you are not severely affected by this problem, Microsoft recommends that you wait for the next Windows 2000 service pack that contains this fix." [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ''Saving Your Settings'' takes one minute on logout Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at 3:25 pm Posted by richard (1 messages posted) SAVING YOUR SETTINGS Start -> Run -> "gpedit.msc" In Group Policy window go to: Local Computer Policy -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Logon Double-click "Maximum retries to unload and update user profile". Check "Enable" radio button. Set Max. Retries from 60(default) to a lower value. I set it to 2 and it works like a charm. Windows shuts down in a few seconds. My guess is that NAV 2003 has some naughty service in the background that Windows was trying to close for 60 times before shutting down. Thank you for help everyone. 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum