[XP] Accelerating shutdown ?
 

My XP-system takes decades to shut down windows and switch off the computer.

The "saving your settings-screen" doesn't appear too long, but then it comes to the "windows is shutting down-screen" and the system is stuck.
The hdd-activity-led shows nothing for some time, then it blinks a few times and the computer is finally switched off.

I edited the registry....

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ ControlSet001 \ Control
WaitToKillServiceTimeOut 1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
AutoEndTasks 1

... and switched off the debug-info-saving but nothing helped.

Anyone got a similar problem and probably a solution ?

How long does it stay at the "Windows is Shutting Down" screen?

If it's a significant length of time (ie: 5+ minutes), check the settings for "flush pagefile at shutdown" - and make sure it's not selected. I know that adds a massive amount of time to the shutdown process.

hmm it's like 1 minute 20 or so, but if you're sitting in front of the screen with nothing to do, this can be a long time... ;)

It is most certainly the swapfile (or pagefile). Download TweakXP and you can use it to tweak a ton of XP settings along with the swapfile. I had this same problem and it took ages to shutdown until I unchecked the swapfile box.

My guess will be some driver thats timing out.

if it is the pagefile try
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

ClearPageFileAtShutdown set to 0

Since the Hard Drive isn't blinking i doubt its pagefile related though.

Disable your network drivers and do a reboot cycle, twice.

Disable any services you can or drivers you don't need.

BootVis might show you something, but i don't recall that it times shutdown timeouts.

I had a similar problem. Some bug/error in a windows file, apparently. In my case, an update to a new service pack eventually solved the problem.

But that was just *my* problem... :)

Why are you sitting around waiting for it to shutdown?

because sometimes it gets stuck and I want to get sure to have my machine shut down.