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- runedude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+48Just download using download.microsoft.com, silly MS forgot to protect their download links!
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/8/7/a87b3d05-cd04-4743-a23b-b16645e075ac/UPHClean-Setup.msi - beelz, on 10/12/2007, -11/+49Yea not SO bad. you just have to have Windows Genuine Advantage . . .
- teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -48/+81and we dont feel bad for you...the one thing you shouldnt pirate is your OS since you rely on the damn thing so much...you know?
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -12/+45@teamparadox
Being the hypocrite that I am, I modded you up. - tidu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26That's because you're using firefox. Switch to IE and there are different diagrams.
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Anyone have the problem when logging off where it says "Ending Process" I think, and you have to click the button to end it or the computer won't shut down? I usually walk away as it's shutting down and this sometimes keeps the computer on. It happens every once in a while, not every shutdown.
- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19"Yea not SO bad. you just have to have Windows Genuine Advantage . . ."
=/ My copy is legit, but Microsoft lists it as a counterfeit one. I guess I can't use this then. :( - monsieurevil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10UPHCLEAN stands for User Profile Hive clean. All it does is watch for handles to your registry at shutdown that do not appear to be closing in a timely manner. It will not fix any apps, break any apps, or do anything to apps. All it does is close registry handles.
That's all. Nothing else.
If you examine your Application event log, you can get an idea of which apps are causing the problems. Often times, it's crappy printer drivers that prevent the spooler from releasing handles. Other times, it's silly 3rd party apps.
In Vista there's a new user profile service that takes care of this in box, so you won't need UPHClean anymore. - No1nose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Why doesn't MS just include this in one of the monthly updates? Is there an obvious reason I am overlooking?
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14You're going to have to hire someone to stop you from clicking 'yes' to every popup you see when you're browsing porn to stop that....
- nogami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Crud, whoops - looks like that was MS after all (but should still work)
Plan B - MajorGeeks - http://www.majorgeeks.com/User_Profile_Hive_Cleanup_Service_d4841.html - fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Dude, if your computer takes 7 minutes to start up, you probably have a hardware problem or a serious spyware infestation. If your computer takes more than a minute to start up, you should have it checked by someone who knows how to use computers (ie, not you).
- 1coreduo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8It's called re-install
- knellotron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8WGAPluginInstall.exe doesn't run in Wine... :(
lol. What a boneheaded idea. - dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I did the alternate method and it validated without downloading wga.
- andykling, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8yes, I have this problem nearly every shutdown. Quite annoying! Does this app fix this problem?
- wordsofwisedumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If this works so well, why isn't it installed by default? What's the downside to it? Is there one?
- _Caboose_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I deleted my prefetch files (%systemroot%/Prefetch) and it sped up start up time SIGNIFICANTLY. It went from a couple minutes to a few seconds for me. Just don't delete the layout.ini file - not sure if anything needs that, but it's better to be on the safe side. If you want to stop Windows from making the prefetch files altogether, disable the Task Scheduler service - I've noticed nothing wrong by doing this, and Windows or my programs don't appear to load any slower without the prefetch files.
- teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@Carlos
I understand that and I dont fault you for it but I dont feel bad when people cant patch or run a usefull MS app. No need to explain yourself, im no anti piracy nazi. - chromium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4PC laptops also have that ability. You can choose if you want the pc to shutdown, hibernate or sleep when you close the screen.
- chapium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@airmann90
There is another utility called bootviz that will help you boot faster.
http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/sgp-tweaks.ars
Article on cleaning prefetch cache:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=304 - monsieurevil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Did. See user profile service in Vista. Then read about what UPHClean actually does and how it's mainly fighting your cruddy 3rd party apps.
- xst4t1kx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Failed authentication doesn't mean your OS is pirated, MS has plenty of problems with flagging legit copies as invalid. I have a legit copy of 2K that I had problems with and I had a friend that bought a new in box copy of XP that rejected the CD key that came with it. When we called MS support it rejected the new key they provided while we were on the phone with them. 3rd key worked but it shouldn't take 3 keys. I called to get help with 2K but got run around and had to jump through hoops like they were trying to up-sell me on another OS. Friend with XP was provided 2 new keys in about 15 minutes. I will be glad when I never have to use their software.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm tired of all these Linux n00bs acting like they NEVER have to shut down their computers. Sure, while it's not REQUIRED to shut down Linux as often, it's usually a good idea to restart it from time to time. Like ANY computer (even phones), RAM gets clogged, regardless of how well your OS handles RAM usage. RAM can only PHYSICALLY take so much, and will fragment data and get clogged, just like any Windows system.
- malliemcg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Actually UPHClean has been around for at least 5 years, I have used it in many jobs, it makes managing a network much easier and will decrease the percentage of locked/damaged roaming profiles dramatically. (Went from 3-5 per day to less than 1 per month).
- aluminumpork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Standy and Hibernate are not the same thing. If I am correct, Hibernate saves the current state to the hard-drive, therefore not using energy to keep the current state alive. Standby (once again, if I'm correct) keeps the current state in memory, which obviously needs energy to keep the state alive.
Standby and HIbernate are both on Windows. - chromium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm not sure how macs work but you say you put them to sleep which on PC means it is still using power, albeit not much, to keep the contents of ram. Hibernating is different, it stores the contents of ram to disk and actually powers the PC off. Obviously hibernating will take longer than sleeping.
- Ryokurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The program can sometimes kill processes that seem to not be in use but actually are. Thus if you start having some programs crash for no reason at all or missing dll errors its likely this causing it. Its rare but it can happen.
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you work with Citrix / Terminal Servies you've probably been using this for quite some time. :-)
- Harbinger67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thanks much man, works great :)
Yo ho ho mateys... - harrisonpowers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Great, just installed and saw a significant decrease in my shutdown time. The time I used to have to deal with was absolutely horrible, now it's just alright. Big change though, thanks.
- eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4no wai
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4ya rly
- EricG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This service works .. I have been using it for months as well, and have had no issues using it and my shutdown times are down to mere seconds again.. don't hesitate to install this if you are having slow shutdown times, especially if it seems to hang at "saving settings" ..
- tehpunk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6if i understand correctly, i have to install a new service to shut my pc down.
that's just gaytastic. - maxplanar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ chromium, thanks. That would explain it. So Hibernate is sort of a half-way between OSX's Sleep and Shutdown, I guess. It's one thing I really like about the Mac laptops - at the end of the day or when you need to move, you just close the screen - instant sleep. Move, or fly all around the world, open laptop screen and carry right on from where you left off. Instant off, instant on. Nice.
Again, this is not a troll. - Reweave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4> airmann90
Don't wait for a Photoshop equivalent on Linux. GIMP is behind and will stay so in the foreseeable future. I'd suggest running it in virtual machine (or WINE, for pre-CS versions). - Shnax, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Wow... I cant believe microsoft actually has Genuine Advantage plug-in instructions for firefox.
- toddomatic, on 05/20/2008, -8/+10Ok, now where's the "Speed up the 7 Minute Startup" tool?
- hollywoodone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2do this instead
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1590&page=32 - heavyd14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Set it to automatically kill the process by editing the registry: http://www.johntp.com/2006/02/14/speed-up-windows-xp-shutdown/
The first part involves killing running applications (Crashed, Hung or Running Normally) and the second involves killing applications that cause the messages you are talking about. - kday, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I have a Mac Desktop and a PC laptop. I rarely ever shut down either of them. I just Hibernate my laptop, and sleep my desktop. However, If I had an Apple laptop I probably wouldnt sleep it, because sleep uses energy. Did Apple ever officially enable Safe Sleep for the MacBook in Tiger? I believe I seen a hack on how to enable it. Safe sleep in OS X is the equivalent to hibernate on Windows if I remember right.
- heavyd14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg trimmed my comment. (Less than symbol)
On my system, Hibernation takes less than 30 seconds or so either side. (I can't be bothered to time it and it is certainly not too long to be not worth doing.) There is a standby mode that uses a small amount of power that goes even faster, though I don't use it, because it uses power. Are we comparing oranges to oranges here? Are you setting your mac to a mode where it uses Zero power? Can you unplug it without losing data while in this state? (Assuming it isn't a laptop.)
I believe there is a way of setting it so after a set time it standby, it will automatically wake up to hibernate. (It has to wake up to write the RAM to disk.) I know laptops will do this when the battery reaches a critical level. - catpounce004, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I wouldn't call it a significant boost...more like "makes it tolerable." Standby is much quicker.
- golhra, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I always Hibernate.
- _Caboose_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2See my comment just below this one for a possible solution :)
- Kruncher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3copy and paste the code below into a file named something.reg, save and then double click it, should fix your problem
REGEDIT4
;Improve XP Shutdown Speed (e.g. disable annoying "end process" dialogs)
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="1000"
"HungAppTimeout="1000"
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="1000"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="1000" - dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If nothing else, the WGA validation is a pain, I have a valid copy of Windows on my PC, but I don't want to install the fecking program that may way take a disliking to my OS and decide it's an illegal copy.. What's worse is it doesn't really seem to be helping, and theres an extremely easy way around it : Download on another PC, transfer the setup file over...
It's another example of buying software/games/music being more of a hastle than pirating it.. Theres numerous ways around the WGA that are simplier than the "proper" way (Much like things like Starforce games can screw your CD drive, where as a cracked version won't have this problem, downloading an album of bittorrent wont have any problems with DRM if you need to transfer the music to a new computer etc)..
Untill the legal way to do things like getting software, buying games etc is easier, piracy will still be a problem.. Things like the WGA just make it worse, by making things difficult for the user..
Anyway, my long rant, combined with the fact I rarely reboot/shutdown this machine (And when I do I tend to just click the button and go do something else for 5 minutes), I won't use this, but it doesn't seem like there are any huge problems to this, so why isn't it a default thing Windows does?
- Ben - hervey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This one needs NO Windows Genuine Advantage.
http://www.intelliadmin.com/profileclean.msi - striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why do you digg him down? It's true.
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