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  1. 04-07-2003, 01:37 AM #1
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    Angry XP taking long time to shutdown/restart

    I recently upgraded my proc, mobo and hard drive. When I installed WinXP Pro everything was fine. Then I installed a lot of my programs and updated windows. Now, whenever I restart or shutdown it takes a really long time. It didn't take this long about 5 hours ago.

    I click shutdown and it just goes to the desktop like nothing happened. If I try to click on something it says that I can't because windows is shutting down. Then if I wait about 2-3 minutes it finally shuts down.

    Can anyone give me some help?

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  2. 04-07-2003, 11:26 PM #2
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    What anti-virus software are you running? Is it McAfee by any chance?
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  3. 04-09-2003, 11:18 PM #3
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    Originally posted by Lan
    What anti-virus software are you running? Is it McAfee by any chance?
    It's Norton Corporate Edition.
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  4. 04-10-2003, 09:18 PM #4
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    registry tweak to resolve shutdown problem

    I remember reading somewhere that you can modify your registry to shorten the shut down delay.

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  6. 04-11-2003, 12:00 AM #5
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    Have you ever installed SP1?
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