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Old 11th January 2003   #1
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Shut Down And Restart

When I shut down or restart, It takes a long time for windows to shut down. How can I correct this?
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Old 13th January 2003   #2
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That makes two of us I have the same problem. If you find out how to solve it drop me an email at n1iqu@juno.com. If I get an answer I'll do the same if you'll drop me a line with your email. Good Luck
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Old 13th January 2003   #3
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Cleanup!

Run Disk Cleanup

Absolutly know what is starting, spy/adware clean. Run Adaware and Spybot.

Spyware and adware removal
http://security.kolla.de/index.php?l...&page=download

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/downloads.html

For additional XP specfic cleanup download and run XpAntiSpy

http://www.webattack.com/get/xpantispy.shtml

And for the best way to diag and boost the startup speed
download Bootviz from

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/plat...oot/default.asp


Try this thread empty prefetch

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread...4256#post64256

These will help both start and shutdown.

Mike


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