Hi Mark - You might want to check and see if you've installed Hotfix
Q329170. If so, and unless you're sure you need it, it apparently causes
major slowdowns on shutdown and should be removed. See here to decide about
whether you need this hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=329170.
There's been a lot of discussion about this in
microsoft.public.win2000.general nws gp recently. If you decide to remove
it, go to your Control Panel|Add/Remove Programs and see if Q329170 is
listed as installed and, if so, remove it. If you decide that you do need
to keep it, an alternative that's been proposed that will allow you to be
able to exit normally even with the hotfix is to run "net stop spooler"
(without the quotes) from a cmd window before shutdown. You might want to
consider adding that to a logout script that stops the spooler at shutdown,
and kept the hotfix in that case. (I've verified that this works, BTW.)
MS has a fix available if you phone them. See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;814770
plus (Courtesy of Steve Parry)
start > run > gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration> Administrative Template
System > Logon > Maximum retries to unload and update user profile ... set
enabled and to say 5 ... default if not configured is 60!!
and then (added by me) set waittokillservicetimeout at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l
to 5000 ms instead of the default 20000.
(I can verify that these last two make a HUGH difference in shutdown times.)
Regards, Jim Byrd
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Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP
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