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Windows XP: Slow Shutdown
One of our machines on the network is very slow to shutdown at the end of the day. It is Windows XP. The user also notices a whirring/buzzing sound coming from the PC.
The hard drive is not ...
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Why does it sometimes take a long time for windows to shutdown?
I'm not sure if this is a programming question exactly, but it does affect my work quite a bit. I have a project I'm working on where a program has to perform certain tasks on startup. The project ...
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Startup, Shutdown, and applying computer settings?
At work, I login to my computer (XP) using domain.
It takes long time at "running startup scripts", long time at "running shutdown scripts" and ages at "Applying computer settings".
I checked local ...
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Windows fails to restart on reboot
We have many machines running windows xp embedded. The machines are configured to reboot if any problems should occur. But our problem now is that in some cases the machines seems to shut down, but ...
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Something runs shutdown.exe at Windows XP startup
On a Windows XP system something executes shutdown.exe at Windows XP startup. It is really annoying but I can't prevent it. I started the system in safe mode, and tried to find the responsible service ...
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Windows XP stay logged in
Is there a way to make Windows XP stay logged in even after the user logs off? Right now the PCs log in at start up and we're using WinOFF to shut down the computer after X minutes of inactivity.
The ...
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What can cause XP to shutdown the moment you log in?
Investigating a possible data theft:
I always switch off my PC before leaving office. This morning I found the switches on and the PC on too. The screen was locked, so when I logged in with my ...
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What is proxy_desktop?
When shutting down my computer running Windows XP Professional SP3, it sometimes gets stuck with a message window saying that Proxy_Desktop wasn't closing and if was it ok to kill it. If I would kill ...
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why does "program not responding" freeze shut down on one machine but not on another?
I often get "program not responding" issue on my Windows XP Pro machines during shut down. However, one machine just ignores it and shuts down. But the other essentially freezes until I manually say "...
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why does “program not responding” freeze shut down on one machine but not on another? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
why does “program not responding” freeze shut down on one machine but not on another?
I often get "program not responding" issue on my Windows XP Pro machines ...
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Dummy not responding application
I am currently determining how a production environment handles hung/not responding applications during Windows shutdown.
For testing that, it would be good to have a dummy application that does ...
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Windows XP Will Not Restart
I have a Dell Precision T5500 that is dual-booted with Windows XP and Windows 7.
Previously, when shutting down Windows XP (fresh installation) it would sit at the "Windows is shutting down..." ...
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Windows XPe - no shutdown.exe / "Access is denied"
this is my first time posting and asking for help as I really can't get my head round it.
I'm an IT Technician in a team of 3 (including me) that work in a college. We had an old digital signage ...
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Track what is requesting a shutdown event
We have a workstation at work that is on a domain. Every night at the same time it is shutting down by itself. We have stepped through the normal list of items that might request a shutdown and have ...
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Verbal windows shutdown/startup
The question is for both windows xp and server 2003. Especially the latter takes ages to shutdown and startup and doesn't give information on what it's actually doing. Is there a way to get it to be ...
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