Windows Event 1517

When you are ready to leave the office does your windows machine computer take a long tome to lo off? Below may be a answer to a real time waster.

If you have event number 1517 in your event viewer (application):

"Windows saved user ComputerName\UserName registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use. This is caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account. "

Although there may be many causes of long log off and shut down time if you get the 1517 error a good bet is to try is a fix offered by Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837115
I have installed this on my XP machine. I have installed the suggested Microsoft solution. Only once have I received an Event 1517 warning since installation. In addition log off times have been reduced!