Text 8902, 91 rader
Skriven 2006-01-02 08:19:46 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 8899 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: MS Employees Rage As Internet Explorer Ship Sinks
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>


Please upload it.

The slowness started after one of the security updates.  Oddly, when I wipe and
reinstall, the shutdown is quick until I bring the system up to proper patch
level, then the slowness returns.

Thanks.

 /m

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 23:54:29 -0500, "Gary Britt"
<email@from_Gary_Britt.org> wrote:

>Sounds like you need a little utility service MS used to put out called
>uphclean.exe.  Sometimes Win2K will wait for a time out before closing
>certain processes.  UPhclean.exe shuts them down quickly before the 60
>second or so timeout happens.  If you end up waiting for a couple of such
>things it can take a very long time for Win2K to shutdown.
>
>The problems seemed to have revolved around User Profiles and some printer
>drivers/services.  Anyway uphclean.exe service works like a charm and win2K
>shutdowns are always fast and good since I started using it about a year
>ago.
>
>I'm not sure if MS makes the file available any longer.  I was able to snag
>it off a Japanese web site about a year or so ago.  I can upload it to
>binaries if you'd like to try it.
>
>Gary
>
>"Mike '/m'" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
>news:ag8gr1973ni43itk9dt7k4ihmi68dkalre@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:06:09 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>> <bobcomer@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Off the top of my head:
>> >
>> >The new security model is the biggest and most important change.
>>
>> Big and important do not necessarily mean good, or even useful.  XP was
>> supposed to be super secure.  Is the version of Vista you have
>> susceptible to the .WMF vuln?
>>
>>
>> >The new UI is only superficially like the old WinXP one, there's quite a
>bit
>> >of change there too, especially if you have a good enough video card to
>> >handle it. (And I'm not even talking about the transparent windows, which
>> >don't interest me all that much)
>>
>> Oh great, more eye-candy that requires noisy fans in the GPU.
>>
>>
>>
>> >And there's a new OE, renamed Windows Mail, that'll hopefully
>differentiate
>> >itself from Outlook and to fix some of the worst outstanding bugs of OE.
>>
>> "hopefully"?
>>
>>
>> >There's a new driver model that looks promising.
>>
>> "Looks promising"?
>>
>>
>>
>> >Quicker booting than XP, even though it's got beta debug code in it.
>>
>> Win2k used to boot very quickly for me.  Now, after some visits to
>> Windows Update, it takes a long time to boot, and even longer to shut
>> down (shutdown approaches three minutes, typically).
>>
>>
>>
>> >With everything it's almost on the level of change to NT3.1 or Win3.1 to
>> >Win95 to me.  It's certainly going to break backwards compatibility on
>some
>> >things...
>>
>> Looks like another forced upgrade cycle to me, with little to show for
>> my money should I decide to upgrade.
>>
>>  /m
>

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