I haven't tried it out to see if it works yet, but it looks promising:
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service is a free utility from Microsoft that's supposed to speed up Windows XP shutdown times considerably. The article at IntelliAdmin says the biggest culprit for slow shutdowns "is a problem unloading the current user's profile," and what the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service does is in the background and cleans up user profiles automatically. I'm not convinced that it will reduce my ~1.5 minute shutdowns to a few seconds, but every little bit helps. Oh, and FYI, after you've installed the app you'll have to reboot once before it will kick in.
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Subscribe to commentsAdamJul 5th 2006 8:30PM
Umm.. Microsoft released this download? Where's the link? Call me paranoid, but my virus/trojan/spyware/malware/badware alarm went off as soon as I saw the file was being host on the writer's own server.
markJul 5th 2006 8:42PM
microsoft link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
KJul 5th 2006 9:08PM
is there a way to uninsyall it afterwards?
Jordan RunningJul 5th 2006 9:22PM
Yes, K, you can uninstall it just like most programs with Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
Mark: Thanks for the link.
LuttrellJul 6th 2006 2:01AM
I can't tell a difference. However, after installing, it did not ask me to reboot. So I dunno...
LuxuryJul 6th 2006 7:16AM
1.5 minutes?! Well, you're champion. My shutdown continues maximum for 30 second. I don't want to install this program. My shutdown is slowed down by programs, which are closing when I press "shutdown". And about Microsoft: I opened readme.txt file and what I see?!
"UPHClean v1.6d readme.txt
Updated April 27, 2005 by Robin Caron"
No word about Microsoft
msalinJul 6th 2006 8:30AM
I have been using "Superfast Shutdown" for almost a year with excellent results!
One may find this free program at: http://www.xp-smoker.com/freeware.html
raccoJul 6th 2006 2:48PM
my windows box has no problem shuting down fast. its always doing it. . . . . whether i wan't it to or not!
duke hafaJul 6th 2006 2:51PM
command run:
shutdown -s -t 00
attaboy.
Russell HeimlichJul 6th 2006 3:27PM
This made a huge difference on my laptop. It used to take 5+ mins to shut down now it takes 1-2 mins. Kudos to this free download.
CliffroJul 6th 2006 6:15PM
"It used to take 5+ mins to shut down"
Wow sounds like lots of other bad stuff going on there or maybe you just have a lot of CRAP on there, either way 5 mins to Shutdown is very bad, its bad for startup as well but thats horrible for shutdown...2 mins is still bad.
Me on a bad day 30secs to shutdown
Good Day 15secs to shutdown
siddJul 6th 2006 9:17PM
wow
you'll computers are messed up
mine shuts down in 15 seconds top
i dont even use any program
WedgeTalonJul 6th 2006 9:36PM
What's this "shutting dow" thing you guys speak of?
/Last time my computer was off was due to a power outage
Claudiu SpulberJul 7th 2006 7:26AM
I followed this tip from digg too, and boy did I regret it. Blue screen on restart (something like bad_header_data?!), had to use safe mode to remove it. Doesn't do that much for the headache caused.
ThomasJul 7th 2006 4:46PM
Im with you Wedge.. What is shuting down.. LOL..
Actually I tend to almost never shutdown, part is due to the fact that my MOBO needs its BIOS updated and Ive been just too busy to take the time.. (it forgets my drive config almost all the time, have to boot to BIOS when starting from an Off state)
LuapJul 7th 2006 9:29PM
Why not hibernate if you need to shut down - seems faster to me on my laptop with XP.
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=hibernate+windows+xp&spell=1
On why you might want to shut down or hybernate - seems obvious to me - save energy, money and reduce your contribution to greenhouse gases.
jessJul 8th 2006 12:02PM
This thing caused a BSOD and hosed my computer until i could uninstall it. Running WinXP -- be WARNED...
SwiftBlueAug 6th 2006 3:05AM
Haha! Only 5 mins? I'm a computer technicion, and the worst I've seen was 12mins. Yeah, insane. Slow shutdowns are often caused by slow processors and not much ram. This 12min was on a P133 with 96 megs of ram. How did it get on there, you might ask, since Windows blocks you from installing XP on anything less than a 400. Well, it HAD a 450 in it, with 256 ram. (It was a P2, but they found one of those crazy slot -> socket converters) They stripped it to feed their friends computer. And they brought it in because it was too slow.... I hate people.