[kelston]

I can't pinpoint when it started so I can't really rollback, it's been an issue that's been happening for some time now. I can't recall making any changes to the system.

Anyway, when I attempt to shut down, it would hang on "Waiting for machine group policies to finish" as I enabled verbose shutdown since it had been hanging during shutdown. As best I could tell, machine group policies were aimed at applying rules across a network, which is all well and good but if what I have setup is a network, this is the only computer or anything at all that's on it.

I had figured it was a random occurence but what i've managed to determine is that it only occurs on shorter usage sessions, like I guess under an hour. I can't give a better estimate as I would prefer not to sit here for hours attempting to shut off my PC at random intervals.

It won't hang after a long session, but I don't have a "medium" session. By long they're usually 4+ hours. When I have the computer on for that long, whether it's using it or having it on and idle, it won't hang on shutdown. But if it's a short session, it will hang without fail, regardless of what I did whether it's nothing or playing a game.

I can't say i've messed with the group policies as i'm not exactly sure what they are to start with. I know you could access them with gpedit.msc but the only things I changed there was years ago to do the standard things like disable Messenger.

This is XP Pro SP2.

[Dyre Straits]

Originally Posted by kelston

I can't pinpoint when it started so I can't really rollback, it's been an issue that's been happening for some time now. I can't recall making any changes to the system.

Anyway, when I attempt to shut down, it would hang on "Waiting for machine group policies to finish" as I enabled verbose shutdown since it had been hanging during shutdown. As best I could tell, machine group policies were aimed at applying rules across a network, which is all well and good but if what I have setup is a network, this is the only computer or anything at all that's on it.

I had figured it was a random occurence but what i've managed to determine is that it only occurs on shorter usage sessions, like I guess under an hour. I can't give a better estimate as I would prefer not to sit here for hours attempting to shut off my PC at random intervals.

It won't hang after a long session, but I don't have a "medium" session. By long they're usually 4+ hours. When I have the computer on for that long, whether it's using it or having it on and idle, it won't hang on shutdown. But if it's a short session, it will hang without fail, regardless of what I did whether it's nothing or playing a game.

I can't say i've messed with the group policies as i'm not exactly sure what they are to start with. I know you could access them with gpedit.msc but the only things I changed there was years ago to do the standard things like disable Messenger.

This is XP Pro SP2.

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[kelston]

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

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Ah, yeah, that was something I had forgotten to mention. It was the first (and only) thing I had found through Microsoft's KB to possibly help the issue. It's made no difference though, unfortunately. I still run it.

[PangingJr]

you can first try disabling the verbose status messages by using gpedit.msc or regedit.exe tools - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325376

and then check out the Solution section on this page - http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showpost...24&postcount=2

more info on Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP which also include the Boot logging - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222