Extremely slow shutdown

FinalJason823 · Aug 10, 2004

Hi all, I just upgraded a friend of mines pc, as well as my PC to Serial ATA hard drives. I installed a Maxtor 200GB drive for myself , I installed two Serial ATA Seagate 120GB drives for him. Now both of these computers reboot extremely slow. It literally takes 2-5 minutes to reboot. Anyone have a similair problem? It works fine during normal use, benchmarks normal, boots up normal, only when restarting or shutting down do I experience slowdown. Any help on this would be extremely appreciated, thanks.

P.S the only thing both computers have in common are the use of Windows XP Pro.

Major Attitude · Aug 10, 2004

Couple guesses....

Start Registry Editor [Regedit.exe] and navigate to the following key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]

Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown value to 0

Or, using Group Policy Editor [for Windows XP Professional]

Click Start, Run and type "Secpol.msc"
Click Local Policies | Security Options
In the right-pane, set Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile to Disabled

Another guess:
The WaitToKillServiceTimeout value name in the registry allows you to specify a length of time that the service control manager must wait for services to complete the shut-down request. Open Registry Editor and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\WaitToKillServiceTimeout

Backup your registry first, as explained here. Then, reduce the Service timeout value (default being 20000ms) to your preference.

Similarly, set the AutoEndTasks to 1 in the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Control Panel
\Desktop

AutoEndTasks value determines whether user processes end automatically when the user either logs off or shuts down Windows 2000/XP.

From here, maybe a driver issue, be sure to have all newest drivers installed. I found a website with more:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

FinalJason823 · Aug 11, 2004

Thank you for the help Major, but unfortunately it did'nt seem to work. All of my reg files were set to those values already, and I should mention that on my desktop I have formatted several times. I did during a couple of attempts to format however get a USBPort.sys Stop Error Message, and on two seperate attempts IRQ_Not_Less_Or_Equal and Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area errors.Maybe this is related?

Major Attitude · Aug 11, 2004

I am familiar with a similar message, hope this helps or I am running out of ideas:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmd_stp_hwpg.asp

Hax · Aug 11, 2004

Weird.
You re-installed on the new drive?
2 different manufacturers and 2 different machines, so it is not likely a bad drive. Something in your procedure maybe.
Something funny with the partition? How did you partition and format the drive?

FinalJason823 · Aug 11, 2004

Major, let me salute you sir. That link you sent helped fix my problem indirectly. See it mentioned someone having trouble with a Logitech mouse causing problems on their system. I then remembered the one single common thing my computer and my friends pc had in common..........we have the exact same Logitech Elite keyboard. Add the fact that I usually download updated drivers, but got lazy and installed the iTouch 2.15 CD drivers on both PC's.....I uninstalled those drivers and installed the 2.22 ones and bada bing, working. Don't you just love how it always seems to be the least likely thing? Well anyways, thanks again Major, you're a true man amongst geeks.

Nirvana_CN · Aug 11, 2004

If you have a Nvidia card, goto Start-->Run--> Services.MSC and stop the NVIDIA Display Service,, then dounble click it and set it to disabled.

Disabling that service wont affect you in any way, except if you check gaming forums or places like Guru3d.com It can *really* slow system shutdown on PC's with large HDD's

Major Attitude · Aug 11, 2004

FinalJason823 said:

Major, let me salute you sir. That link you sent helped fix my problem indirectly. See it mentioned someone having trouble with a Logitech mouse causing problems on their system. I then remembered the one single common thing my computer and my friends pc had in common..........we have the exact same Logitech Elite keyboard. Add the fact that I usually download updated drivers, but got lazy and installed the iTouch 2.15 CD drivers on both PC's.....I uninstalled those drivers and installed the 2.22 ones and bada bing, working. Don't you just love how it always seems to be the least likely thing? Well anyways, thanks again Major, you're a true man amongst geeks.
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