I've had a query from a reader about an issue with an item during PC shutdown, as follows:

“Hi Nathan...can you tell me what "WMS Idle" is and why it keeps appearing when I try to put my computer on standby or off?  I’m running Windows XP  and install all updates as they appear. I use AVG free.”

This problem is most commonly caused by Nero Scout, which is a desktop search application installed by the Nero suite of CD/DVD programs.  Just disable Nero Scout and it will go away.  

Many unnecessary programs get started up when you start your computer, and as time goes by you get more and more slowing your computer down further and further.  One big offender are software autoupdaters for all those third party programs you have.  You can check the list of starting programs a couple of ways, but you do need to be careful when disabling items in case you turn off something important accidently (like your anti-virus!).  You can use “msconfig” (click Start, Run, then type msconfig and click ok) to view startup items, just click the Startup tab and you will see a list.  Another tool you can use it Microsoft Autoruns (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx), which gives an even more comprehensive list of everything that starts up.  For both programs untick the box next to an item to disable it starting up.

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