Problems shutting down XP

[Yohhan]

My winxp takes a long time to shut down for some reason. Whenever I shut down, it gets through "Logging Off" and "Saving Setting" fairly quickly, and then takes about 30 seconds to shut down. This isn't a big problem, but it does get a little annoying. I've tried the registry fix where you drop the milliseconds from 20000 down to 4000 for 'wait to kill app', but it hasn't helped. Any additions suggestions?

Thanks.

[Wiggo]

http://forums.tweaktown.com/showthre...&threadid=3448 ;)

[Ewen]

Very often you will find that if you boot and reboot a number of times during a session this delay will occur. I dual boot with ME and sometimes i find it neccessary to swap from OS to OS anumber of times and this happens to me too. Whereas if I remain on the one OS for the whole session XP closes instantly.