W2k Server Shuts Down Slowly

[pointertovoid]

Hello you all!

Having had my hands on a W2k Server just because of a cheap opportunity, I tried it very briefly as a four-core W2k workstation, and quickly gave up for having no multitask application except 7-zip. But I may change my mind in the future.

One drawback was that W2k Server shut down very slowly, which is a real annoyance if misusing it as a workstation.

I didn't invest the necessary time to improve it. Is there a remedy? Like, a service to deactivate, some option "LetUserWaitForNoReason=0" to adjust somewhere?

Thanks!

[cluberti]

That all depends on the reason it was slow, and what point during shutdown. Winlogon first calls apps to shut down, then it calls services.exe to shut down services that are running, then Winlogon goes into an actual system shutdown routine that either reboots or shuts down the box. It would be beneficial to know what part of shutdown was slow.

[pointertovoid]

I didn't check it in detail, nor do I have the W2k Server any more.

In any case, it was as installed from the original Cd, and under these conditions and on this machine, W2k Workstation shuts down quickly.

So I wonder if it's something like Active Directory, or some other addendum which I don't need if using a W2k Server as a Workstation, that slows down the shut down. In such a case, I could maybe disable the service.

Is the slow shutdown a known behaviour of W2k Server?

[cluberti]

No, it isn't - hence why I asked. The only thing it could be outside of the machine would be a machine shutdown script or user logoff script coming from AD that hangs it up, but to know that it'd take some troubleshooting with a machine you say you don't have .