Slow shutdown.

[whargoul]

I am running Win2000 Pro, and as the title suggests it shuts down verrry slow. It gets stuck at the saving setting box, though never freezes or anything. I did a quick search on the forums already and tried some of things mentioned but they just messed it up even more. I have a minimum of junk, actually nothing more than Windows needs to run, when shutting down so I dunno what could be hanging it up.

[EzyStvy]

M$ update 329170 caused me a lot of grief shutting down..I uninstalled and all was well.

[ktkendall]

1 thing to give a try at is to boot into safe mode and shutdown from there and see if same symptoms, If it shuts down fastrer in safe mode then it's something like driver or app that is running in normal mode causing it, although I see U are running bare minimum so it may also do it it safe mode which then may point to that windows update mentioned or hardware problem...

[whargoul]

Thank you for the suggestions.

I do indeed have that hotfix installed. One thing though, don't they usually show up in Add/Remove Programs? Cause mine don't, yet I seem to remember them being there at one time. I did find a "329170.cat", is a ".cat" how hotfixes are stored? Would deleting this get rid of the fix?

ktkendall - I'll try that also.

[whargoul]

Forgot about this one.

I tried what was suggested and it didn't help. But after some more searching I found some people having the same sympotoms as me using Catalyst 3.2's and above. I rolled back to 2.5's and it went away. Though, In the end I formatted and put WinXP Pro on. Enjoying the really fast startups/shutdowns now.

[Markoman01027]

I get that too sometimes, but only if the PC has been running for over a week(or even a few days) usually comes from a service crash. I'm not worried about it, heck it's Microsoft :-P like people have said, if it aint broke, dont fix it.