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When I try to restart or shutdown windows, the system seems to hang. Task manager wont display, no programs will open ( I get a warning which says the program can not open because windows is shutting down...) I end up having to restart manualy. The Event viewer displays this message: "Windows saved user **EDITED**\HP_Administrator registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use. This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account." I've tried uninstalling adware remover, antivirus software, other software and still no luck. How can I figure out what service is hanging?

I figured it did, but I've only gotten that event log once even though I've had this problem many times. I actually installed all 3, antivirus, antispyware, and printer drivers which all coincied the the problem's first occurance. I will start with the anytispyware because I believe it is that. So my OS isn't true 64bit?

I just got an HP MCE 2005 64bit. When I try to restart or shutdown windows, the system seems to hang. Task manager wont display, no programs will open ( I get a warning which says the program can not open because windows is shutting down...) I end up having to restart manualy. The Event viewer isn't much help. No Warnings or Errors are displayed except once I got this: "Windows saved user **EDITED**\HP_Administrator registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use. This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account." Not sure if that has anything to do with the hang. Has anyone had an issue similar to this? any ideas? Thanks