I MEDIA 5093 - slow XP sutdown

Ever since it was new my 2.5GHz I-Media 5093 has always been very slow to
shutdown. It always gets there, but can take 50s to do so.

Reloading XP doesnt help.

Any clues?

TIA

Andy

"Acedrew" wrote in message
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Ever since it was new my 2.5GHz I-Media 5093 has always been very slow to
shutdown. It always gets there, but can take 50s to do so.

Reloading XP doesnt help.

Any clues?

TIA

Andy


Man!
That's slower than this PB Cyrix MII 333Mhz'er with XP Pro. What all is
running still when you're shutting down?

If you are sayoing 50 secons for 50S
That is not abnormal
Actually that is fairly fast

Before Shutdon all the settings are saved
This is normal with Windows
XP and 2000 are much better at this setting saving
It takes longer with rhese 2 OS
Actually a couple of minutes is what it takes on this side



"Acedrew" wrote in message
.. .
Ever since it was new my 2.5GHz I-Media 5093 has always been very slow to
shutdown. It always gets there, but can take 50s to do so.

Reloading XP doesnt help.

Any clues?

TIA

Andy

Nothing is running other than whatever XP has going itself - i.e the problem
occurs even after a clean install.

I have had lots of XP machines, and even the ones with slower CPUs and less
memory shutdown faster.

(The problem machine has 2.5GHz/512MB)


"metronid" wrote in message
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If you are sayoing 50 secons for 50S
That is not abnormal
Actually that is fairly fast

Before Shutdon all the settings are saved
This is normal with Windows
XP and 2000 are much better at this setting saving
It takes longer with rhese 2 OS
Actually a couple of minutes is what it takes on this side



"Acedrew" wrote in message
.. .
Ever since it was new my 2.5GHz I-Media 5093 has always been very slow
to
shutdown. It always gets there, but can take 50s to do so.

Reloading XP doesnt help.

Any clues?

TIA

Andy

Start Regedit.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.
Click on the "Control" Folder.
Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Right click on it and select Modify.
Set it a value lower than 2000

"Acedrew" wrote in message
...
Nothing is running other than whatever XP has going itself - i.e the
problem
occurs even after a clean install.

I have had lots of XP machines, and even the ones with slower CPUs and
less
memory shutdown faster.

(The problem machine has 2.5GHz/512MB)


"metronid" wrote in message
...
If you are sayoing 50 secons for 50S
That is not abnormal
Actually that is fairly fast

Before Shutdon all the settings are saved
This is normal with Windows
XP and 2000 are much better at this setting saving
It takes longer with rhese 2 OS
Actually a couple of minutes is what it takes on this side



"Acedrew" wrote in message
.. .
Ever since it was new my 2.5GHz I-Media 5093 has always been very slow
to
shutdown. It always gets there, but can take 50s to do so.

Reloading XP doesnt help.

Any clues?

TIA

Andy

"metronid" wrote in message
...
Start Regedit.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.
Click on the "Control" Folder.
Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Right click on it and select Modify.
Set it a value lower than 2000

"Acedrew" wrote in message
...
Nothing is running other than whatever XP has going itself - i.e the
problem
occurs even after a clean install.

I have had lots of XP machines, and even the ones with slower CPUs and
less
memory shutdown faster.

(The problem machine has 2.5GHz/512MB)


"metronid" wrote in message
...
If you are sayoing 50 secons for 50S
That is not abnormal
Actually that is fairly fast

Before Shutdon all the settings are saved
This is normal with Windows
XP and 2000 are much better at this setting saving
It takes longer with rhese 2 OS
Actually a couple of minutes is what it takes on this side



"Acedrew" wrote in message
.. .
Ever since it was new my 2.5GHz I-Media 5093 has always been very
slow
to
shutdown. It always gets there, but can take 50s to do so.

Reloading XP doesnt help.

Any clues?

TIA

Andy










I was looking for that tip too. It slowed my machine down even more, when I
tried it before. It was like it took twice as long to wait to kill service!
But, remember, I'm talking about an ancient machine here.