I have been having some issues as of late with rebooting XP.

When I choose to shut down or restart the blue logout screen comes up and says "Shutting down"
but it hangs there for one or two mins.

I have run all the necessary adware and spybot tools to rid anything like that. I have no idea if this would cause that but I did it anyway, but still no luck. And before you ask, no Pr0n or wacky hacked software on my box. I try and keep a clean install. Before this problem it would only be a few seconds to shutdown or reboot. Loging in is no issue though, it only takes a few seconds to boot up and be at my desktop.

I have a AMD 64 3500+ w/ 1gig of ram if you are wondering.

So I guess my question is:
Is there a way to run some type of audit when I shutdown so I can see what process it might be hanging up on if thats the case?

9/11/2005 4:11:17 PM

This page has some tips:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php (Windows XP Shutdown Troubleshooter)

Scroll down to the "SHUTDOWN WORKS, BUT IT’S REAL SLOW" section.

More tips/tricks here:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowshutdown.htm

9/11/2005 4:19:18 PM

cool thanks.

I googled as soon as I posted and thats what I got.

I changed some services around so I am gonna reboot now and see what happens :-)

[Edited on September 11, 2005 at 4:26 PM. Reason : c]

9/11/2005 4:25:47 PM

right click on my computer, and go to manage, expand the event viewer, right click and select clear all events on system, application, and security. once those are cleared, try to shut your system down. The next time you boot back into windows after that, go back to the event viewer, and open it up for each of those. If you see any red X's, double click on that event, and copy/paste the error in here.

9/12/2005 2:34:09 AM

^ there is no manage button

9/12/2005 7:56:14 AM

sorry just noticed.

I am checking now

9/12/2005 1:36:02 PM

There are 5 of these red X's after a Reboot under the System tab.

DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to start the service SENS with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{D3938AB0-5B9D-11D1-8DD2-00AA004ABD5E}

9/12/2005 2:19:58 PM

have you tried disabling the dcom serivce?

9/12/2005 2:28:20 PM

No
Should I....

I will

9/12/2005 2:54:08 PM