2k shutdown

[McGrupp2000]

I just upgraded my sys and did a clean instal of win2k sp3. Now it takes forever to shut down. The part where it hangs is "saving your settings". It boots up so quickly, why not shut down? I did all the usual tweaks (run as server, not standalone, dis able logging, etc..) Any way to speed this up?

win2k sp3
asus a7n8x mobo athlon 2100+ xp
wd 80gig sp. ed. hd
radeon 9000pro 128
256 ddr400 mem
266 fsb
thanks!

 

[grrryphon]

I've seen it do that too. I can only assume it's checking current settings in some way because it doesn't seem to be access disk or anything. Maybe it's doing some kind of check to see which settings have changed since last boot-up. Just a guess.

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Grrryphon

 

[McGrupp2000]

I know what you're saying, but it never hung so long before.

 

[jlanka]

there are a bunch of posts on usenet saying the following:

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<pre>This problem is a result of installing a Microsoft hotfix
from Windows Update that wasn't thoroughly tested.

Start>Settings>Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs

Select "Windows 2000 Hotfix (Pre-SP4) Q329170" and
click "Change/Remove"

By the way, you should be able to exit normally even with
the hotfix if you run "net stop spooler" from a cmd
window. I added a logout script that stops the spooler at
shutdown, and kept the hotfix.
</pre><p><i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[McGrupp2000]

jlanka- I deleted the hotfix uninstall (I only keep them for a little bit to make sure all is ok). So what is the script that you use?

 

[jlanka]

it's right in the post from usenet:

net stop spooler

try it ineteractively first, just type net stop spooler and then shutdown.

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>