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re: windows xp shut down slow Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:22 am Posted by yellow_submarine (85 messages posted) go here: http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm On Monday, September 12, 2005 at 8:25 am, navi wrote: >I am having pc with the config of p4 3.0 ghz, intel 865 motherboard,80 sata drive,512 >mb ram .Everything runs fine on the pc but the only problem is that it shuts down >very slow any idea for ???????? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp shut down slow Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:27 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7097 messages posted) If it hangs up with the message "saving your settings" and the Event Viewer reports that XP had trouble unloaded a user profile, you can try this download from Microsoft: User Hive Profile Cleanup Service [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Cleanup Routine Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:28 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO "Run Disk Cleanup and remove all but the last restore point. See if your System Restore cache and Recycle Bin size is set at a reasonable level (Say 1024Mb) on each drive, and reduce the IE Temporary Internet Files cache and History cache to the minimum. Install CCLeaner and clean out all of the junk files. Unhide all files and folders and remove the hotfix uninstallers ( $NTUninstaller$ ) from the hidden C:\Windows folder and remove their entries from Add-Remove programs. (Note: Some Security updates should NOT be removed so check in add-remove programs - before - doing this task.) Then remove the contents of: The C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations folder The C: WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder The C:\WINDOWS\Temp folder The C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\Datacoll folder, and... The C:\Windows\Prefetch folder (You can add these folders to EmpTemp if you have this program installed.) Then run chkdsk and defrag." (Do - not - allow these programs to run on system startup as it can cause problems with update and installation temp files which need to stay in the TEMP folder whilst the computer is re-booted. The same applies to all programs which empty TEMP folders on system start-up.) Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files EmpTemp & CCLeaner To make your shutdown clean, install the... UserProfileHiveCleanupService" TweakUI is useful to have for certain repairs, as well as for performace tweaks...POWERTOYS Backup your registry and optimise it too, for a faster boot-up...ERUNT-NTREGOPT Mac TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF IDIOTS YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH (WIZARD OF ID) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp shut down slow Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:36 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO You just need the...To make your shutdown clean, install the... UserProfileHiveCleanupService System startup 60 seconds, shutdown 10 seconds. Mac TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF IDIOTS YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH (WIZARD OF ID) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Cleanup Routine Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 11:45 am Posted by bïöµï¢ (29 messages posted) On Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:28 am, Mac wrote: >(You can add these folders to EmpTemp if you have this program installed.) Hey, everything you said is nice, but if you read the EmpTemp homepage you can see that the author of the program has never used Windows XP while writing the software, in fact he didn't even own a copy when he made the software and he promised version 2.9 against his current 2.8 back in the year of 2003. It almost 2006 now last time I checked, and lazy authors software should not be recomended imho :| [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Cleanup Routine Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 12:03 pm Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO  XP CLEANUP I use it on all copies of XP and have had no problem. Mac TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH ('NEW' RELATIVITY) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Cleanup Routine Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 2:08 pm Posted by bïöµï¢ (29 messages posted) yes and not much benefit either I imagine ;) have you seen it clean up the Content.IE5 directories, assuming you can find either the Content.IE5 or the directories it holds .. some software called spider-something could do this back in the day, it is long forgotten now .. only a dos startup disk can reveal these directories that hold the entire browsing history since day 1 and deleting the index.dat files does nothing in this matter .. this is microsoft's invisible tripple-protection and "if you don't know, now you know, ni**a" :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Cleanup Routine Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 2:14 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO  XP CLEANUP Yes, well, the Thought Police and Big Brother (He's my brother, he ain't heavy, etc.) want to see if you have been looking at pornography instead of them getting rid of it and ending prostitution, racketeering, corruption and organised crime. So I use ammunition which goes through three layers of kevlar and have my finger on the launch button. Nice World to live in huh? But then you don't pray to a benign and benevolent being either. Mac TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH ('NEW' RELATIVITY) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Cleanup Routine Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 4:38 pm Posted by gary (605 messages posted) hey mac theres two of them.which one do you down load uphclean exe, or uphclean setup. thanks On Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:28 am, Mac wrote: >XP INFO >"Run Disk Cleanup and remove all but the last restore point. See if your System Restore >cache and Recycle Bin size is set at a reasonable level (Say 1024Mb) on each drive, >and reduce the IE Temporary Internet Files cache and History cache to the minimum. >Install CCLeaner and clean out all of the junk files. Unhide all files and folders >and remove the hotfix uninstallers ( $NTUninstaller$ ) from the hidden C:\Windows >folder and remove their entries from Add-Remove programs. >(Note: Some Security updates should NOT be removed so check in add-remove programs >- before - doing this task.) >Then remove the contents of: > >The C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations folder >The C: WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder >The C:\WINDOWS\Temp folder >The C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\Datacoll folder, and... >The C:\Windows\Prefetch folder > >(You can add these folders to EmpTemp if you have this program installed.) Then run >chkdsk and defrag." > >(Do - not - allow these programs to run on system startup as it can cause problems >with update and installation temp files which need to stay in the TEMP folder whilst >the computer is re-booted. The same applies to all programs which empty TEMP folders >on system start-up.) > >Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files > >EmpTemp & CCLeaner > >To make your shutdown clean, install the... UserProfileHiveCleanupService" > >TweakUI is useful to have for certain repairs, as well as for performace tweaks... > href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx">POWERTOYS > >Backup your registry and optimise it too, for a faster boot-up...ERUNT-NTREGOPT > Mac > >TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF IDIOTS YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH >(WIZARD OF ID) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Cleanup Routine Friday, October 21, 2005 at 1:18 am Posted by Cam (4178 messages posted) XP INFO  XP CLEANUP UPHClean-Setup.msi is the one you should use. Mac TIME IS DIVISIBLE BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH ('NEW' RELATIVITY) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp shut down slow Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 9:10 am Posted by jef nolan (3 messages posted) For what it's worth. I have the same slow shut down problem. I've done everything everyone has listed. Sometimes the problem is corrected, but it returns. I was shutting down a program in task manager one day and rediscovered the shutdown selection. I tried it and shutdown and restart were both at normal fast operation. I tried regular shutdown/restart at subsequent times and still took 2 minutes to get to the shutdown/restart selection and another 2.5 minutes to accomplish. Maybe this information may help to ultimately fix the problem, but for now, task manager is doing the shutdown/restart. thanks for any follow up, jef [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp shut down slow Friday, March 16, 2007 at 7:28 am Posted by Bob Rubendunst (1 messages posted) For my system, (actually running W2K), the fix was to delete the external modem from "modems" in the control panel. I surmise that windows was still trying to talk to the external modem, which hasn't been attached to the computer for years! I tracked it down to svchost running, and the optional stack trace showed that some TAPI calls were keeping the registry open. TAPI==modem, so I tried deleting modems from the system (which I do not use anymore.) It fixed the problem. This fixed the slow shutdowns, and also fixed the bad disk condition on the next start up. YMMV! On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 9:10 am, jef nolan wrote: >For what it's worth. I have the same slow shut down problem. I've done everything >everyone has listed. Sometimes the problem is corrected, but it returns. I was shutting >down a program in task manager one day and rediscovered the shutdown selection. > I tried it and shutdown and restart were both at normal fast operation. I tried >regular shutdown/restart at subsequent times and still took 2 minutes to get to the >shutdown/restart selection and another 2.5 minutes to accomplish. Maybe this information >may help to ultimately fix the problem, but for now, task manager is doing the shutdown/restart. > >thanks for any follow up, jef [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp shut down slow Monday, October 6, 2008 at 5:45 am Posted by Matt (1 messages posted) RESOLVED for me! UHP Cleanup -- worked like a champ. I worked off and on for a week trying to resolve this issue. UHP Cleanup took right care of the issue, lickity split, no sh!t!! Thanks for the tip, Dan! On Monday, September 12, 2005 at 9:27 am, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >If it hangs up with the message "saving your settings" and the Event Viewer reports >that XP had trouble unloaded a user profile, you can try this download from Microsoft: > >User >Hive Profile Cleanup Service [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 XP Discussion Forum