Posted by member 11445 on 2003-03-06 11:19:15 link
I think this _really_ solves the problem:
It turns out that this is a workaround only, but doesn't actually fix the problem. Go into the Event Viewer -- in the Application Log, you'll see an error at every shutdown, source Userenv, description "Windows cannot unload your registry file...". Enabling the 'maximum retries' setting only reduces the number of times Windows tries from the default of 60 to 5 or 10. Windows is still unable to unload the registry. The problem actually appears to be caused by the installation of Hotfix 329170. Uninstalling the hotfix corrects both the slow boot problem and the underlying registry problem. This was posted by stan g on the Computing.net forum; here is the URL: http://www.computing.net/windows2000/wwwboard/forum/42735.html. During the uninstall process, a warning lists programs that may not function correctly after 329170 is removed. However, this does not appear to be a problem, because the .dll files that are removed during the uninstall are restored to their previous versions. I removed 329170 last week; everything is fine now, and all software is running normally.
It turns out that this is a workaround only, but doesn't actually fix the problem. Go into the Event Viewer -- in the Application Log, you'll see an error at every shutdown, source Userenv, description "Windows cannot unload your registry file...". Enabling the 'maximum retries' setting only reduces the number of times Windows tries from the default of 60 to 5 or 10. Windows is still unable to unload the registry. The problem actually appears to be caused by the installation of Hotfix 329170. Uninstalling the hotfix corrects both the slow boot problem and the underlying registry problem. This was posted by stan g on the Computing.net forum; here is the URL: http://www.computing.net/windows2000/wwwboard/forum/42735.html. During the uninstall process, a warning lists programs that may not function correctly after 329170 is removed. However, this does not appear to be a problem, because the .dll files that are removed during the uninstall are restored to their previous versions. I removed 329170 last week; everything is fine now, and all software is running normally.