Re: 1.5GB user profile in Win2000

[Jim Howes <jimhowes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A. J. Moss wrote:
> My father has been complaining that his computer takes several minutes
> to shut down Windows 2000.

McAfee products anywhere?  (Although this problem is not restricted to 
McAfee virus scanners alone)

If it is this problem, you will see a number of EventID 1000 messages in 
the system log.

The size of the user profile includes pretty much everything under 
\Documents and Settings\USERNAME  which can sprawl with downloaded 
applets, temporary files left abandoned by crashing software, internet 
explorer detritus, etc. Most of this just wastes space and should not 
affect shutdown time.  The 'Disk Cleanup' option from the disk's 
properties menu should help with some of this, although personally, I'd 
then reboot, and then nuke everything in D&S\USERNAME\TEMP dated prior 
to today to finish the job, and look around for other gunk loafing in 
there.  Disk Cleanup will take a _lot_ of time if it's never been run 
before.

There are a number of problems with Windows 2000 where a process or 
service can hold the user registry hive open even after the user logs 
off, and the system pauses for a minute or two when shutting down.

Various solutions exist for this problem, the most successful of which 
I've found is a microsoft program called UPHCLEAN.EXE

Details
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en