XP Pro Shutdown problems

[DavidAlle1]

I am using Win XP Pro (all recent patches in place as of June 8, 2002) with Novell Netware on a DELL Inspiron 4000 laptop with 256mb ram on a wireless home broadband cable network. The problem is that at shutdown or restart, windows "saving your settings" takes anywhere from three to five minutes before "System shutting down" finally appears and windows shuts down or restarts, as requested. System does not really "hang" at "saving your settings" because there is I/O activity on the hard drive. It just takes for-bloody-ever to shut down the system safely, with settings saved. I have downloaded and successfully installed the Windows XP patch (Q307274 on Microsoft knowledge base) with absolutely no effect. I have also done the following with no effect (restarting between each of these actions):

1) toggled the virtual memory pagefile on and then off; 2)turned off all sound devices in device manager; 3) turned off all network adapters; 4) removed my wireless pcmcia card; 5) performed SFC /scannow using the original XP Pro CD; 6) updated Roxio Easy CD to version 5.1.0.104; 7) disabled the system event log; 8) set power options to "Never" turn off for Monitor, Hard drive, system standby; 9) turned off "Exit Windows" wav sound file; 10) ensured no problems in the drivers with all of them working.

The problem persists. I am losing patience. Anyone have any insights?

 

[pierrebrown]

Check in Control Panel->Peformance and Maintenance->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Event viewer to see if you are getting any errors. A 3-5 minute shutdown will generally cause an event to be logged.

 

[tlcscousin]

Did you add any new programs just before the problem started?
I had the same thing happen and found it to be tweaki which I was trying out.If you know when it started you can do a system restore to a time prior to the problem.
Here is a link to a site that provides some remedies to shutdown problems.

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

 

[linney]

Have you been here.

http://search.novell.com/NSearch/Se....html&numhits=20&theme=support&query=shutdown