Turning off the annoying Shutdown Event Tracker

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If you are like me and are using Windows 2008 or Windows 2003 as your primary OS, when you shutdown you get this annoying window:

Honestly, this window annoys the heck out of me.

If you want to turn this off, do the following:

From the Run menu type "gpedit.msc".
In the tree view, navigate to Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | System Folder.
Double click on the Display Shutdown Event Tracker setting.
Select the Disabled radio button and click Ok.

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# re: Turning off the annoying Shutdown Event Tracker

yes, the shutdown annoyance monitor has been bugging me on new servers for 5 years now.

As an addemdum, to apply the policy (and avoid one final Shutdown Event Monitor) before you reboot or shutdown, run
gpupdate /force
and you won't have to see that annoying thing. 9/17/2008 10:10 AM | darklurker

Mike Azocar

So long and thanks for all the Fish!