From: Ellen K. 

I never tried ME.

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:17:28 -0500, "Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
:

>> It's still a lot faster than its predecessors, W9x takes forever.
>
>Ironically, WinME is still has the fastest boot times, IME, by quite a good
>margin.
>
>- Bob Comer 
>
>
>"Ellen K." 
wrote in message
>news:0mo6t0p2mtlp9ujcc2bhvurlpb8ftjchea{at}4ax.com...
>> It's still a lot faster than its predecessors, W9x takes forever.
>>
>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:39:32 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote in
>> message :
>>
>>>
>>>Well if you're type A+, then you definitely don't want to be waiting for
>>>W2K
>>>to boot up.  In addition to the shutdown slowdowns,  The security patches
>>>have
>>>also installed a "feature" that gives me an hourglass
for about 30-60
>>>seconds
>>>before I can Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in.  As a result, I now tend to turn on
>>>the
>>>PC as I walk by in the morning to make coffee, and turn it off when I go
>>>to
>>>bed.
>>>
>>> /m
>>>
>>>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:28:20 -0800, Ellen K.
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I never shut down my home ones either.   Realize I am Type A+, do not
>>>>want to wait for machine to boot when I sit down at it.
>>>>
>>>>Wonder how much electricity a computer uses actually...  do you know?
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:55:24 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote in
>>>>message :
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>This is the desktop in my dining room.  No sense leaving it on
>>>>>overnight,
>>>>>wasting electricity.  Also, I had noticed more crashes
when I didn't
>>>>>reboot
>>>>>every couple of days.
>>>>>
>>>>> /m
>>>>>
>>>>>On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:21:48 -0800, Ellen K.
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I never shut any of my machines down.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:43:52 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote
>>>>>>in
>>>>>>message :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>At first I thought it was just me.  At first I
thought there was
>>>>>>>something in
>>>>>>>my environment that was causing Windows to take
so long to shut down.
>>>>>>>Then I
>>>>>>>noticed a couple of things.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The first was that a new install of Windows
2000 shut down quickly.
>>>>>>>However,
>>>>>>>once I visited the Windows Update site and
started to bring W2K up to
>>>>>>>date
>>>>>>>with all the critical fixes, the shutdown delay
appeared.  Somewhere
>>>>>>>during
>>>>>>>the multiple download, install and reboot
process, I noticed that the
>>>>>>>shutdowns were taking longer and longer.   It
might have been the
>>>>>>>download of
>>>>>>>27 critical patches that was the cause.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>At that point I was still thinking it was
something I was doing.  Then
>>>>>>>I got a
>>>>>>>new notebook with W2K on it.  I wanted to test
the system recovery, so
>>>>>>>I did
>>>>>>>the recovery option that does a clean install
of W2K.  The initial
>>>>>>>install
>>>>>>>shut down quickly.  However, after I visited
Windows Update and
>>>>>>>downloaded the
>>>>>>>critical patches, the shutdown slowness
appeared, even on that new
>>>>>>>notebook.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>So now I'm thinking that it is me or my home
network.  Then I see a
>>>>>>>cartoon in
>>>>>>>the November 2004 issue of Optimize, a trade
rag for CIO's published
>>>>>>>by CMP
>>>>>>>Media.  On page 17 the cartoon shows an office
worker who has fallen
>>>>>>>asleep at
>>>>>>>his desk, the clock on the wall says 8:00.  It
is nighttime because
>>>>>>>you can
>>>>>>>see the window lights of other office buildings
in the background.
>>>>>>>There is a
>>>>>>>cleaning lady looking at the office worker in a
darkened office.  His
>>>>>>>face is
>>>>>>>lit up by the glow of the PC's monitor.  On the
screen, the monitor
>>>>>>>says,
>>>>>>>"Please Wait While Windows Shuts Down".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Once I saw that, I thought, it's not something I'm doing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>So now that begs the question, what in the
world is causing Windows to
>>>>>>>take
>>>>>>>nearly two minutes from the time I tell it to
shutdown until the time
>>>>>>>it
>>>>>>>actually shuts down?  It used to take a few seconds.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Has anyone else seen this problem?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /m
>>>>>>>
>>
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