Shutdown Problem in Windows XP

eeeboy · 11-12-2006, 10:05 AM

I am having a shutdown problem in my Windows XP box.

Most of the time , I shut down the pc , the box appears ,

1. Can not close the program : XPCom : Event Reciever

2. can not close the program : ZLClient : Zone Alarm FireWall

Whats the problem with My Windows ?

Will.Spencer · 11-12-2006, 12:55 PM

This is a bit of a philosophical question.

Microsoft Windows says "I can't close myself down because these bad applications are refusing to shut down."

Unix, on the other hand, would say "I'm in charge here. We're all shutting down. I've given you lazy processes the opportunity to shut down nicely, now it's kill -9 time!"

With a registry change, you can tell Windows to act like a big manly OS.

Under HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop, there will be a string Value called AutoEndTasks. Set the value of AutoEndTasks to 1 and those tasks should be automatically (and ruthlessly) killed on shutdown.

eeeboy · 11-13-2006, 02:48 AM

Thanx , You are always so helpful....Will !

sbcal · 11-14-2006, 01:20 PM

Cool, I was wondering the same thing, but I did not do much about it. Thanks again for your help, Will. You should be nominated the Tech of the Year!!

Will.Spencer · 11-14-2006, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sbcal

Thanks again for your help, Will. You should be nominated the Tech of the Year!!

I just want a PR10.

sbcal · 11-14-2006, 05:07 PM

LOL A PR10, don't we all?

You're half way there already.... Keep up the good work; it will be here very, very soon!! It'll be only a blink of a eye, I promise.

peeling · 11-17-2006, 02:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

I just want a PR10.

Cough. Cough. LOL

I do have a couple of suggestions, though. I did a quick search of your site through Google and you seem to be missing a couple of things:
1. Product Reviews - If you can personally do Benchmarking and post the reviews, it's gonna bring a lot of traffic in here.
2. There's no resource directory on the entire site. With so many categories, you can build a directory, where webmasters could submit their sites to the particular category, and you would get an incoming link from each site. Your PR won't go to 10, but it might help a bit.

Disclaimer: Just my opinion. Not professional advice. Apologies if you already have either of the two and I missed it.

Will.Spencer · 11-17-2006, 02:38 AM

It's funny that you should mention product reviews, because we are just barely starting down that road.

We're starting off first with cell phone reviews. For example, check out our Motorola KRZR K1m review. We posted our first review yesterday, so this is all very new. I am extremely excited!

We started with cell phone reviews because those don't change as frequently as computers, motherboards, etc... We hope to add all of those -- eventually. We also hope to do electronics like M3 players, GPS devices, TV's, stereo equipment, etc...

We're not going to add a directory. Heck, I just got rid of Travel Directions.