Hey all, Got a problem here that I hope some experts can help me with. Recently bought a new PC and all is good except... When I "shutdown" or "restart" - when I'm at the blue screen and it says "saving your settings" I hear a stop error beep in the background. When I look in event manager this is the massage I get from the error generated: Windows saved user YOUR-9EFCB93C24\HP_Administrator 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 often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account. Then when I click on help and support center within "properties" of the error, it says: Windows saved user %1 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 often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account. Explanation Windows unloads each user's profile and user's section of the registry when the user logs off. This message indicates that Windows could not unload the user's profile because a program was referencing the user's section of the registry. This locked the profile. The registry cannot unload profiles that are locked and in use. When the program that is locking the profile is no longer referencing the registry, the profile will I really appreciate any help you guys can give. Thanks so much! -Brian specs: 3.0 ghz P4 w/HT 1024mb DDR 3200 250 gig ATA Serial HDD HP DVD-DL CD-Rom 128DDR ATI X300 PCI-Express XP Media Center Edition

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I think it fixed the problem. Thanks so much for your help!!