when i turn off my computer it says closing network connections.......SAVING SETTINGS... then windows is shutting down.....do you know what settings it saves?
It's writing all modified pages containing file data to their respective file. If the setting is specified to clear the page file on shutdown, that is done when the system says "saving system settings" as well. Of course it doesn't do this if you are just logging off.
The relevant point here is that "modified pages containing file data" will almost certainly include the user profile registry data- this just so happens to be where explorer and windows saves the settings you specified.
You cannot "force" this to happen without logging out and then logging back in.
