re: slow shutdown/reboot
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tim
(1 messages posted)
Clearing Windows pagefile during shutdown process generally extends shutdown process
to the point of annoying. Check the registry and see if this feature is set on your
system. By default, it is not set to clear pagefile on shutdown...
Some third-party programs can temporarily store unencrypted (plain-text) passwords
or other sensitive information in memory. Because of the Windows virtual memory architecture,
this information can be present in the paging file.
Although clearing the paging file is not a suitable substitute for physical security
of a computer, you might want to do this to increase the security of data on a computer
while Windows is not running.
1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2. Change the data value of the ClearPageFileAtShutdown value in the following registry
key to a value of 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
If the value does not exist, add the following value:
Value Name: ClearPageFileAtShutdown
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
On Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 9:55 pm, sean wrote:
>After my system is woken up from sleep if I shut down or reboot it seems to take
>forever. Like 10 minutes or so. Does Anyone know a fix for this?
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- slow shutdown/reboot (sean: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 9:55 pm)
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