windows shutdown help

[beachBOYken]

hi

im having trouble with shutting down windows xp ,everytime i go to shutdown under start it hangs and i have to wait about 2-3 minutes until the shutdown/standby box comes up ?

it never actually jams just hangs at that certain stage when i go into start and shutdown .

im pretty sure im up to date with windows but i noticed my last security update from windows was august 08 and i have all my security options on in the control panel???


can anyone help me with this anoying problem


thankyou

 

[gillywibble]

Tried this?

1) Start - Run - Regedit
Navigate to the following Registry key:
HKEY CURRENT USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Double click on the AutoEndTasks entry and replace the 0 with a 1 in the Value data text box

For the next two, if the dword value indicated does not exist, create it:

Double click on the WaitToKillAppTimeout entry in the right pane and change the Value data to 2000

Double click on the HungAppTimeout entry in the right pane and change the Value data to 1000

Reboot

If still having a problem, make the next change:

2) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
Right-click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout and change it to 2000

NOTE: The lowest value Windows will recognize is 1000 (1 second)

ADVISORY: While rare, the "WaitToKillService" tweak can cause problems. If an application is in the process of saving data and the associated service is stopped prematurely, the data will not be saved and may be lost.

Do you know what processes are running when you shut down?

 

[beachBOYken]

i might have solved it as i just updated to windows service pack 3 and installed about 25 other security updates , i found out that my firewall has been stoping my windows automatic updates , now everything is up to date my firewall seems ok with the auto updates .

hopefully this would have sold the shutdown issue


cheers