From: Mike N. 

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:43:52 -0500, Mike '/m'  wrote:

>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.

   I have seen this issue in Win 2000 server on and off on some systems.  A
MS KB 2 years ago said it was vaguely related to roaming profiles and would
be fixed in SP(N+1).  I still see it in SP4.

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