Re: 'Saving Your Settings' takes a long time

Rick,

Check out the mis-named User Profile Hive Cleanup Service from Microsoft

*http://tinyurl.com/2h3yl*
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en

Its primary function is to deal with programs that have a registry key
open and don't close it quickly enough (or at all) when shutting down.

It appears that Windows tries to wait for the keys to be closed so that
the registry isn't corrupted before it shuts down. However some programs
open a key to read it but never close it and have no intentions of
updating it. Sort of another version of the memory leak problems.

I have seen this tool help enough shutdowns that it is part of my
standard install practices now.

Roger Vicker, CCP

On 5/14/2007 3:51 PM, Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

A while back when I log off or shutdown my home system it sits on the 'saving
your setting' message for a really long time. I haven't actually timed it
but it's probably over 15 seconds. When using any of the other ID's it fly's
right through. The only difference I can see is that my ID is an
administrator. I've tried changing the account type but it didn't help.
Does anyone have any ideas what would cause this delay?

Rick Chevalier
AmeriCredit ITS
817-525-7178



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