From: Mike '/m' 


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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