I was going to wait to post this, but it makes such an dramatic difference that i had to post this now
Ever use XP and it takes a very very long time to shut down? Like a couple of minutes just to shut down? Or maybe it goes so far and hangs, and never quite shuts down completely?
Microsoft released a tool for this called User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
Form the download page
The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and applications occasionally maintain connections to registry keys in the user profile after a user logs off. In those cases the user session is prevented from completely ending. This can result in problems when using Roaming User Profiles in a server environment or when using locked profiles as implemented through the Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP.
On Windows 2000 you can benefit from this service if the application event log shows event id 1000 where the message text indicates that the profile is not unloading and that the error is “Access is denied”. On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 either event ids 1517 and 1524 indicate the same profile unload problem.
To accomplish this the service monitors for logged off users that still have registry hives loaded. When that happens the service determines which application have handles opened to the hives and releases them. It logs the application name and what registry keys were left open. After this the system finishes unloading the profile.
Real world: My XP used to take upwards of 6 minutes to completely shut down. now it takes roughly 35 seconds
Is this something that will be handled automatically in Vista?
One of the things I’ve always hated most about OS X is that it takes like 30-40 seconds to shut down, compared to the like 2-3 seconds for classic. I mean, I know it’s needed, but it’s just bad when if feels like it takes longer to shut down than start up
Dunno if it is. Anyone out there with a vista box could check services (i imgain it’s still “services.msc” in the run box, or buried in teh admin tools somewhere) and see if it’s running
One of the things I’ve always hated most about OS X is that it takes like 30-40 seconds to shut down, compared to the like 2-3 seconds for classic. I mean, I know it’s needed, but it’s just bad when if feels like it takes longer to shut down than start up One of the things I’ve always hated most about OS X is that it takes like 30-40 seconds to shut down, compared to the like 2-3 seconds for classic. I mean, I know it’s needed, but it’s just bad when if feels like it takes longer to shut down than start up
Go back a ways in windows. 95 shut down much quicker, win 3.1 was a few seconds to shut down and dos didn’t even need a shutdown
Dunno if it is. Anyone out there with a vista box could check services (i imgain it’s still “services.msc” in the run box, or buried in teh admin tools somewhere) and see if it’s running
One of the things I’ve always hated most about OS X is that it takes like 30-40 seconds to shut down, compared to the like 2-3 seconds for classic. I mean, I know it’s needed, but it’s just bad when if feels like it takes longer to shut down than start up One of the things I’ve always hated most about OS X is that it takes like 30-40 seconds to shut down, compared to the like 2-3 seconds for classic. I mean, I know it’s needed, but it’s just bad when if feels like it takes longer to shut down than start up
Go back a ways in windows. 95 shut down much quicker, win 3.1 was a few seconds to shut down and dos didn’t even need a shutdown
Vista doesn’t have anything like that in it, but this was released long after Beta 2, so I wouldn’t put it past them to include it in the final version.
Vista doesn’t have anything like that in it, but this was released long after Beta 2, so I wouldn’t put it past them to include it in the final version.
Actaully, this was out for quite some time. I found information about this dating back to april 3, 2003.
Of course, it’s possible Vista just does this on it’s own and that’s why it isn’t included
