long shutdown times?

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bfgun · #1 Post by **bfgun** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:39 am

my desktop shuts down in about 5 seconds. when i shut down my thinkpad, it takes a good 15-20 seconds. This is after i've already closed all of my programs.

I suspect it might be the wireless connection?

Anyone have any pointers?

thxs

#2 Post by **Kyocera** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:53 am

disable the wireless radio/connection and shut down, that will eliminate that question.

search the forum there are a lot of posts on this.

cmarti · #3 Post by **cmarti** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:29 pm

Do you have the clear pages at shutdown enabled? If you did that may be the reason to the slooooww shutdown.

bfgun · #4 Post by **bfgun** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:33 pm

everything is at default.

where would i find the "clear pages" option?

what if i disabled virtual memory? (i have 2 gigs of memory in it)

cmarti · #5 Post by **cmarti** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:09 pm

bfgun wrote:everything is at default.

where would i find the "clear pages" option?

what if i disabled virtual memory? (i have 2 gigs of memory in it)

Ok go to Run/write in there regedit/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/Current control set/Session manager/Memory management/ClearPageAtShutdown/change the value from 1 to 0 and there you go.

Try that. And please post the results.

bfgun · #6 Post by **bfgun** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:19 pm

can you tell me what this does? I'd like to know before i make any changes to the windows registry.

cmarti · #7 Post by **cmarti** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:42 pm

It will make your lappy turn off like in 10 seconds.

It will not harm it do not worry.

Edit: That is without turning off all of your programs.

Nick Y · #8 Post by **Nick Y** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:50 am

cmarti wrote:regedit/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/Current control set/Session manager/Memory management/ClearPageAtShutdown/change the value from 1 to 0 and there you go.

Just looked at the the above, out of interest. Part of path omitted. Add 'Control' as below:

..../Current control set/Control/Session manager/....

cmarti · #9 Post by **cmarti** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:20 am

Nick Y

You are correct! it

bfgun

Did you try it?

Nick Y · #10 Post by **Nick Y** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:00 am

Yes, I tried it, but it was already set to 0. Also tried turning off the wireless connection, but, apart from making no difference to the time, that messed up my wireless re-connect on power up. (For my system, it may be Symantec/Norton AntiVirus that slows things down as some part of that often throws an error at shutdown by not being able to read/write to memory 0.)

#11 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:21 am

It is my feeling that AntiVirus software is generally the culprit here. And I am not just talking about Norton. The problem is that one or more programs are not releasing themselves when Windows engages in the shutdown. Sometime UPHClean helps to speed up shutdown times.

You should see a file called userenv.log in the C:\WINDOWS\Debug\UserMode directory. Open this file in Notepad, and you will likely see a line such as the following:
USERENV(500.504) 06:28:20:866 CUserProfile::CleanupUserProfile: Ref Count is not 0
This is a Windows error message. When you have a clean shutdown, then you will not see this in userenv.log. You may not even have that file if Windows is shutting down cleanly.

Microsoft's User Profile Hive Cleanup Service

cmarti · #12 Post by **cmarti** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:39 am

Nick Y wrote:Yes, I tried it, but it was already set to 0. Also tried turning off the wireless connection, but, apart from making no difference to the time, that messed up my wireless re-connect on power up. (For my system, it may be Symantec/Norton AntiVirus that slows things down as some part of that often throws an error at shutdown by not being able to read/write to memory 0.)

Another option would be trying this:

Go to Run/write in there regedit/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/Current control set/control/Wait ToKillService Timeout change the value there to 500 then close and reboot your next shutdown should be faster.

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