Recently, I've experienced slow shutting-down times. Nothing mind-blowing, increased from, say, 20 seconds to, say, 50 seconds, but when anything different happens it sounds a warning bell to me.
It's Service Pack 2 plus all updates, running on a mirrored RAID. When shutting down, I used to click "OK" then a few seconds later I'd have the desktop icons disappear, then virtually immediately afterwards, the "Saving your settings" box would appear, remaining until the last seconds, when the screen would go "plain" (not blank), then shut down.
Now, I get the icon disappearance, then the "Saving your settings" which then itself disappears for maybe 20 seconds or so before re-appearing, then it shuts down as before. Hence, the extra time coincides with the disappearance and subsequent re-appearance of the "Saving your settings" box.
The shutdown wav. file is not corrupted, I've got no "roving profile" problems and I've disabled the "purge cache" service, as recommended. It's probably small fry in the overall scale of things, but I wondered whether anyone else had experienced this and/or overcome it.
TIA!
Ray.
It's Service Pack 2 plus all updates, running on a mirrored RAID. When shutting down, I used to click "OK" then a few seconds later I'd have the desktop icons disappear, then virtually immediately afterwards, the "Saving your settings" box would appear, remaining until the last seconds, when the screen would go "plain" (not blank), then shut down.
Now, I get the icon disappearance, then the "Saving your settings" which then itself disappears for maybe 20 seconds or so before re-appearing, then it shuts down as before. Hence, the extra time coincides with the disappearance and subsequent re-appearance of the "Saving your settings" box.
The shutdown wav. file is not corrupted, I've got no "roving profile" problems and I've disabled the "purge cache" service, as recommended. It's probably small fry in the overall scale of things, but I wondered whether anyone else had experienced this and/or overcome it.
TIA!
Ray.