Thread: i am not getting any help on this....

Maybe some services optimization might be in order?
Have you checked your event logs? I'm sure you'll find something not right logging as an error or warning...

XP I am guessing?

Well a 900Mhz machine isnt going to blow shutdown times out of the water to begin with. Only thing I can see is bluetooth that could be causing a problem. Bluetooth in general is processor intensive with a bad stack and when connected to a device, it needs to disconnect before shutdown. uninstall bluetooth and see if it helps. But honestly, 30 seconds on a 900mhz celeron isnt bad at all.

try this registry edit.
values in milliseconds. Set the WaitToKill options to smaller values if you like.


[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"ForegroundLockTimeout"=dword:00000000
"HungAppTimeout"="4000"
"MenuShowDelay"="200"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="5000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="5000"

thanks for the tips guys... just about tried everthing you've suggested... Didn't help a bit.. uninstalled blutooth... tweak the registry... Followed 100 steps to optimize xp... etc.... Non helped... By the way, i misinformed you about 30 sec. shutdown time.. it's 1min 30 sec... I am about to do a fresh reinstall of XP, and go from there.. Maybe 1min 30sec is normal for 900ghz system?

I would hope a 900ghz system would take significantly less time to shut down... :P

I've had desktops do that where all of a sudden the shutdown time gets really long, I usually wind up just dealing with it until the next reformat. Haven't found a real solution yet.

it turned out it can do a lot better than 1min 30sec..
since i have no way or knowledge of installing xp from cd or any external drive with my umpc, i was researching for a way to do it with usb thumb.. Then i came across this ghost file which looks to be like a striped ver. of XP with sp3. Installed it. Bam... 5 sec shutdown... But, i tell you it's missing some things... i couldn't install blutooth app... don't know what else it might not allow... but you know what.. who cares.. rr runs and i have 5sec shutdown.. i am back to happy now

Ever thought about using hibernation, like the rest of us?

yes.. i would love to do that, but my battery is completely dead... i might need to get a new one but it's a bit expensive...

Hibernation doesn't use any power, standby does