W2k won't close down. End Program - No Title

[laurikotka]

Since a week I need to close down windows manually on my two pc's. I normally select Shut down from start menu. After that my opened programs are closed down (with no problem) a window is opened with "End Program - No Title". How can I trace what this is ?

 

[bcastner]

Task Manger. Or more thoroughly with the freeware Process Explorer from Sysinternals/Microsoft:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

You likely need to be a bit of a detective for this issue. The following should help, and ignore the XP favoritism:

[li]Registry Entries to deal with wayword Processes:[/li]

From a note by electronicsfreak, I believe quoting forum Member BigBadBen: thread779-1189157

WaitToKillAppTimeout ( original value = 20000) Lower to make faster

hungapptimeout = 500 (lower to make faster)

"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\verbosestatus"
Set this value to 1 (TRUE), it will then LOG any INFO to the EVENT VIEWER...

"HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTasks" set this to 1 (TRUE), this will kill TASKS quick...

"HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\" look for the Values "HungAppTimeout" and "WaitToKillAppTimeout", the first is for manually shutting down APPS (Exiting a Program) and the Second is for Shutdown... set these to 2 and 5 respectively...

"HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Setting this to a value of 2 to 5, will kill the Services still running in the background faster during Shutdown...

"HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\ClearPageFileAtShutdown"
if this value is set to 1 (TRUE) then the PAGEFILE will get deleted everytime you shutdown, ergo slowing down the SHUTDOWN process, if it is set to 0 (or non existing) then leave it for a faster shutdown..

If after a restart you are still unhappy:

Tek-tips Forum member "linney" had an unusual and effective approach for this issue:

If you have checked the Group Policy as it applies to the local machine and are sure no setting there is the cause you can try this -

How To Reset Security Settings Back to the Defaults

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=313222

Please see also the AUMHA Forum troubleshooter:

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

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[theharvester]

Do you have any USB card readers or zip drive hooked up? I was having the same problem and my USB C.F. card reader was the cause. My dads box was doing the same thing and his zip drive was his cause.