http://blogs.technet.com/b/brad_rutkowski/archive/2007/02/28/windows-server-taking-a-loooong-time-to-reboot.aspxRecently we ran into a dmp where the machine was taking quite a long time to shutdown. Each time the server was rebooted it would seem to hang and then eventually it would go down and come back online. Though are investigation we found that the reg keyen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/brad_rutkowski/archive/2007/02/28/windows-server-taking-a-loooong-time-to-reboot.aspx#681776Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:01:27 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:681776Abdul Rahiman<p>Well. this is certainly on one of them which we see why the server don't go down-fast or desn't go down at all in other cases. I have noticed &quot;N&quot; number of times where server don't go down after doing a remote shutdown(including command and options)....But their are many other things which stops the server going down. When there is an SMS patching the monitoring team get's N number of alerts for the server down..And ther is nothing much which Microsoft does to improve the product and always we gives lot many reasons..I wish if shutdown takes priority of anythng else what ever the registry setting is and it just takes the system down.</p> <p>Warm Regards,</p> <p>Abdul Rahiman</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=681776" width="1" height="1">