Thanks Chris, you've been a big help. I am not running Exchange at all and
messages are archived on a regular basis. But, I was running Business
Contact Manager for Outlook which I have uninstalled. I no longer get the
WMS message, but shutdown still takes over five munutes. Occasionally, but
not always, I get the "End Program" message with "IExplorer.exe" still
running. I have tried to go back to a restore point and have been unable to
do that. I have also tried to run backup in preparation to running my
recovery disk. The backup utility just locks up and sits in with a message
that it is preparing to back up. I,m about to move my most critical files
and run the recovery disk. Your thoughts? Doug

"Chris H." wrote:

> Are you running Exchange in conjunction with Outlook? This can happen with
> that combination or if you haven't archived your Outlook files in a long
> time. You may be bumping up against a 2 GB barrier on your .pst file
> itself.
>
> One way you could verify this is to shut down Outlook, then immediately
> check with a Ctrl-Alt-Del to see if Outlook is still running, and if it is,
> kill it in Windows Task Manager, turn shut down your system and see if your
> get the WMS error message.
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "Doug" <Doug@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BF27D9D8-C343-4197-B0BF-E3720DA58622@microsoft.com...
> > Not running CryptoEx. Any other suggestions?
> >
> > "Chris H." wrote:
> >
> >> Could be several things, Doug, and only you would know what you've got
> >> running on your system. Are you running something called CryptoEx with
> >> Outlook in an Exchange situation? I've seen this issue reported with
> >> CryptoEx v3. The solution is to disable the add-in for Outlook because
> >> it
> >> is forcing a function to remain open even after Outlook is closed by the
> >> user.
> >> --
> >> Chris H.
> >> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> >> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> >> Associate Expert
> >> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> >>
> >>
> >> "Doug" <Doug@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:D5181571-863E-47F1-96C2-C9B42EFD8DEF@microsoft.com...
> >> > During Shutdown I receive the following message "End Program WMS Idle"
> >> > Even
> >> > if I choose "End now" shutdown is very slow, taking over 5 minutes.
> >> > What
> >> > is
> >> > WMS, why is it "idle", what can I do?
> >> > --
> >> > Doug
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>