Logging off should be nearly instantaneous, like flipping the switch on your hair dryer or smashing your alarm clock’s off-button at 6:00 AM. If you’re having log-off problems, you may be able to fix it with UPHClean:

“The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. It will clean up handles to allow unloading of the user profile hive. This can help speed up logging off, reconciliation of roaming profiles and prevent exceeding the registry size limit. Many log off problems as caused by improper coding in software which may cause registry access problems. UPHClean takes action to allow profiles to unload

Download the UPHClean software and install it. It will run as a service on your computer. It can also be removed if needed.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows NT; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP”

Update: If you are running Windows Vista you will not be able to download UPHClean because it is already built into your system (see here).

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