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Running Server 2003 on your desktop? Disable Shutdown Event Tracking

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I love running the highest performance, most stable OS Microsoft has ever produced on my desktop. The problem: a lot of the features that make a sense for a server OS, make little sense for a desktop.

 

An example is the Display Shutdown Event Tracker. This feature is pretty self explanatory--a great way to track what is causing reductions in uptime. For my desktop, which I reboot often into Longhorn, it can be a bit of a nuisance.

 

Group Policy to the rescue.

 

  • Start > Run > gpedit.msc

  • Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System

  • Double-click on “Display Shutdown Event Tracker”

  • Set the option to “Disabled”

     

This should only be done on systems where tracking up time is not necessary.

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  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2004
    I came across this site a while ago, and it contains a number of tips to tweak Windows 2003 to be more suitable as a desktop OS:

    http://www.msfn.org/win2k3/
  • Anonymous
    May 06, 2004
    I sometimes wish Microsoft had put less effort into SP2 and instead released Windows XP 2003 Edition (SP1) for 32-bit systems.

    I'm running build 1184 of it on my home/dev machine and love it. It's great to have a 3790-based machine (not to mention Sasser invulnerability) with IIS 6.0. Unfortunately, only those of us lucky enough to have AMD64 systems will get it.
  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2004
    Thanks. I have it on this machine but couldn't remember it when I set up Win 2003 Server for my desktop.
  • Anonymous
    May 07, 2004
    thanks for the info - very useful..
  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2004
    A while back, I decided to try installing Windows Server 2003 as the main OS on my home laptop. Almost everything worked well and I was able to utilize IIS 6, but the one thing that annoyed me was the...