From: Mike '/m' 


Over the holiday weekend I had a busman's holiday, and I had to do some
repair work on my cousin's PC (ad ware trojans).  He runs W98 (I think Me).
 The boot time to his desktop on his PC (128MB, 200MHz CPU) was about three
times faster than my W2K system takes to get to the point where the hour
glass goes away and I can Ctrl=Alt=Del to log in.

  /m

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:07:19 -0800, Ellen K.
 wrote:

>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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