Noticed immediately after installation of East-Tec Eraser 2007 that my WinXP Home SP2 system took noticeably longer to reboot.
Yahooed "WinXP boot delay" and found: "Correspondent Graeme J.W. Smith reported a more obscure cause of slow shutdown: In Win XP Professional, the Group Policy Editor has a security option to clear the pagefile at system shutdown. The same setting also forces the hibernation file to be wiped at shutdown. These processes take long enough that users may think that shutdown has hung. To change the setting, click Start | Run, type GPEDIT.MSC, click OK. Drill down to Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options. In the right pane, find “Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile.” NOTE: Since someone actually has to have set this policy, the problem will be pretty rare, but is worth mentioning. However, Forum participant “roadrunner” reported that the personal security app Privacy Eraser automatically enables “Clear virtual memory pagefile,” and, therefore, may be the cause of a slow shutdown."
Surmised that East-Tec Eraser ALSO automatically enabled “Clear virtual memory pagefile,” but can't find program setting to disable it.
To test theory, uninstalled East-Tec Eraser 2007 and found problem vanished. Then reinstalled program and problem reappeared.
Rather annoying; don't need/want clearing of pagefile after every reboot.