Guest GP Leo Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 EVERY SINGLE TIME my wife and I log off or shutdown our XP Home SP3, we get "Ending Program. Please wait..." and, possibly later, "This program is not responding..." when, to our knowledge, there is NO program running. How can we eliminate this inconvenience? Regards to those of you who pointed me to the solution of earlier problems. -- GP Leo
Guest R. McCarty Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 Re: Logoff & Shutdown "Ending Program...." Which program does the warning message indicate ? There is a Microsoft Add-on service called User Hive Profile Cleanup that can help with shutdown/logoff. Otherwise, there are a number of applications that do not properly terminate ( Norton...) Windows also closes services ( apps without a user interface or window ) that might also be stalling. Windows provides an Event Log that may hold clues to what is preventing a normal session to end. Click Start, Run (Type) EventVwr.Msc [Enter] The two key logs are Application and System - you're interested in both Warnings and Errors. The Profile Hive Cleanup service can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b286e6d-8912-4e18-b570-42470e2f3582&DisplayLang=en "GP Leo" <GPLeo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7D19C632-7550-4946-84C7-62F6DA174A9D@microsoft.com... > EVERY SINGLE TIME my wife and I log off or shutdown our XP Home SP3, we > get > "Ending Program. Please wait..." and, possibly later, "This program is not > responding..." when, to our knowledge, there is NO program running. How > can > we eliminate this inconvenience? Regards to those of you who pointed me to > the solution of earlier problems. > -- > GP Leo
Guest Unknown Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 Re: Logoff & Shutdown "Ending Program...." Without a doubt, some program did not shut down 'correctly'. You need to do the process of elimination. Before each shutdown look in task manager to see what is running and delete one at a time till program is found. To save time you may want to shutdown any virus or malware programs first as that is the usual cause. "GP Leo" <GPLeo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7D19C632-7550-4946-84C7-62F6DA174A9D@microsoft.com... > EVERY SINGLE TIME my wife and I log off or shutdown our XP Home SP3, we > get > "Ending Program. Please wait..." and, possibly later, "This program is not > responding..." when, to our knowledge, there is NO program running. How > can > we eliminate this inconvenience? Regards to those of you who pointed me to > the solution of earlier problems. > -- > GP Leo
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 Re: Logoff & Shutdown "Ending Program...." >EVERY SINGLE TIME my wife and I log off or shutdown our XP Home SP3, we get >"Ending Program. Please wait..." and, possibly later, "This program is not >responding..." when, to our knowledge, there is NO program running. How can >we eliminate this inconvenience? Regards to those of you who pointed me to >the solution of earlier problems. Try the following: Go to Start > Run and enter REGEDIT and press OK. This fires up the registry editor. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. Edit the following keys: 1) AutoEndTasks: Default is 0, make it 1 You can also try the following settings under the same branch: 2) ForegroundLockTimeout: Default is 20000, make it 0 3) HungAppTimeout:Default is 5000, try 1000, if it's still slow, try 500. I don't suggest going anything lower than 250 though as it could really make programs / services that need a momentd or two to end act...funny. 4) WaitToKillAppTimeout: Default is 20000, try 1000, if it's still slow, try 500. I don't suggest going anything lower than 250 though as it could really make programs / services that need a moment or two to end act...funny. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control 1) WaitToKillServiceTimeout: Default is 20000, try 2000. I don't use this setting personally and it's questionable whether XP supports it or not. When you finish, reboot. Log into XP and then do a shutdown and see how long it take. If some of the keys above don't exists, just create them using the right mouse button. #1 is a String Value #2 is DWORD value #3 is a String value #4 is a String value - Thee Chicago Wolf
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