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Old June 9th 19, 10:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
David B.[_15_]
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On 09/06/2019 20:49, wrote:
On Sun, 09 Jun 2019 14:08:35 -0400, Paul
wrote:

David B. wrote:
I have an old XP laptop, and it seems to take longer than it should for
the shutdown window to show up. I get this hourglass that sits there
for a while (couple minutes) before the the shutdown window opens up.

Is it just old, or is there a way to get it to shutdown quicker?


It could be just about anything. There are actually a sillion things
that jam up at shutdown.

Thus, the following is a simple minded answer, based on
just one root cause.

This utility, "UPHClean", is a utility created around the WinXP
era, that fixed the open hives problem and accelerated shutdown. Later
OSes, the function was incorporated into the OS.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/det...p_service.html

Typically on WinXP, everything would be fine, the user would
install an ATI video driver, and suddenly there was an open
registry hive at shutdown and shutdown was slower than before the
driver was installed. UPHClean could fix it.

But something network-related can get wedged too, so it's
not like UPHClean can address them all.

Paul


My wife "pulled the plug" (shut off the power strip) on her XT machine
for a decade with no adverse result other than a black screen when she
turned it back on and the W/7 machine in my pool bar gets dumped every
time it gets turned off. I understand if I was writing to an open file
it could be corrupted but the pool bar machine is really just an MP3
player. I know some day I might have a problem but I haven't seen it
yet. It does seem shutdown closes all open programs right away and I
am not sure what it is doing during that long process afterward.


I've done that many times myself on my old computers. Even now I
sometimes just power off my laptop (dual boot) by hitting the
start/power button - especially if I've booted up into Linux instead of
Windows 10! ;-)
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