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shut down too slowly? - UPHC!

I found while looking around on the Microsoft Web site a miracle cure for the slow shutdown in Windows XP and Windows 2000: The User Profile Hive Cleanup Service . This is a small service from Microsoft, the recalcitrant programs separate from the registry. It runs as uphclean.exe in the background.

The effect is dramatic (for me). Used to take to shutdown or reboot very well be one or two Minutes (in which the computer was doing nothing), only a few seconds. Attention

side effect: The service seems to install Acronis True Image avoided. But it can terminate the services easy to manage temporary. The

User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to Ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off system processes and applications occasionally maintain connections to registry keys in the user profile after a user logs off the user in those cases session is Prevented from completely ending. This can result in problems when using Roaming User Profiles in a server environment or when using locked profiles as implemented through the Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP.

On Windows 2000 you can benefit from this service if the application event log shows event id 1000 where the message text indicates that the profile is not unloading and that the error is "Access is denied". On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 either event ids 1517 and 1524 indicate the same profile unload problem.

To accomplish this the service monitors for logged off users that still have registry hives loaded. When that happens the service determines which application have handles opened to the hives and releases them. It logs the application name and what registry keys were left open. After this the system finishes unloading the profile.

Aber nicht zu enthusiastisch downloaden: Windows kennt noch ca. 1000 andere Shutdown Probleme...


Links

• User Profile Hive Cleanup Service . Microsoft.
• Other tips from Peter Jasik.