I had to reinstall sp3 on my XP machine and now it takes at least 4 minutes to display the logon screen and about the same time to shutdown the computer. I have the following key HKLM\System\CurrenControlSet\Control\WaitToKillServiceTimeout set to "170" for the shutdown and HKLM\System\CurrenControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryManagement\ClearPageFileAtShutdown set to "0" before I reinstalled sp3. I just re-checked thos keys and they are still the same. anyone else having the same issue? Javier -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php