Fix and/or Speed Up the Shutdown of XP
In a previous article we dealt with speeding up the way Windows loads up. In this article we’ll hopefully fix or speed up, as well as clean up, the way Windows XP shuts down. A lot of systems I see often take an unusual amount of time to shut down and usually I see errors in the Event Viewer reporting that the user profile could not be unloaded. The process is quite simple and a lot less involved as improving the boot up time of the system. Just click the link below to download a program from Microsoft that will automatically do this for you.
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
(For XP only…. It’s already included with Vista under the User Profile Service)
For those of you still unsure of how to install and use the program, here’s a step by step instruction.
1. Double click the UPHClean-Setup.msi file that you downloaded. You will be presented with the Window below. Click ‘Next’
2. Select ‘I Agree’ and click ‘Next’
3. Click ‘Next’
4. Click ‘Close’.
That’s it. Hopefully you’ll notice an improvement in the shutdown speed of your system.
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