Back in April, Microsoft quietly released a new system service for XP/2K that performs a nifty little hack. The User Profile Hive Cleanup Service monitors your user profiles during log off/on and does some (mostly harmless) remapping of your registry keys in order take out the stops. Before installing this, it took my system ten minutes to log off and shut down; now it barely takes two. Generally, this problem is caused by programs (::cough::microsoft::cough::) that don’t properly access and unload from the Registry hives. Nerdy stuff, but I love it! Get it from the source or from some major geeks.

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