XP Shutdown takes a long time with intense disk activity

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When I shutdown my XP Pro on a ThinkPad X30, it takes almost
5 minutes to complete, I get a blue screen with intense disk activity
is there any way to stop that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
If you experience slow logoff (with Saving your settings for most of the
time while logging off), you are having profile unload problems.

If you see a lot of Userenv/1517, Userenv/1524 or Userenv/1500 errors in the
Event Viewer, download and install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service.

This decreased my shutdown time a bunch. Takes any where from 10 to 20
seconds to shutdown.

C:\Program Files\UPHClean\uphclean.exe is added.

The User Profile Hive Cleanup service gets added to Services and
uphclean.exe will run all the time. I am one that doesn't like to have any
extra services running, but I am sold on UPHClean.

Download details: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6d-8912-4e18-b570-42470e2f3582&displaylang=en

UPHClean v1.6d readme.txt
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/8/7/a87b3d05-cd04-4743-a23b-b16645e075ac/readme.txt

If that is not the problem, see these...

Shutdown is very slow - Windows XP
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowshutdown.htm

SHUTDOWN WORKS, BUT IT’S REAL SLOW
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php#slow

The whole article...
WINDOWS XP SHUTDOWN & RESTART TROUBLESHOOTING
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm
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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Thank you for a quick response Wes. Issue turned out to
be that the system was flushing the Page file, I went into
the registry and changed the value from 1 to 0 for
ClearPageFileAtShutdown.

I am also going to run the tool you have suggested to clean things
up.

Thank you.
Ali
 
Ali,

Glad that you got ClearPageFileAtShutdown turned off.

The User Profile Hive Cleanup service is not a onetime deal, it will run all
of the time.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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