Hi Erin and Magida - 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.aspx?scid=kb;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\Control
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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