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Turning off the shutdown tracker

Published December 9th, 2006 in Tips and Windows Server.

I’ve always found the shutdown tracker in Server 2003 terribly annoying. It can be useful on production servers, but it gets old fast when enabled on a test server in VMWare that you reboot/shutdown often. Luckily it is simple to disable.

To turn off the shutdown tracker on 2003 Server:

  1. Start–>Run
  2. Type: gpedit.msc
  3. Under Administrative Template -> System, set Display shutdown event tracker to Disabled.
  4. Click OK and you’re done.