Build Ticker prevents Windows XP from shutting down

If you use Team Foundation Server and Team System for development, you would have come across, Build Ticker, the handy tool which keeps you updated on all team builds. This is a great tool for TFS administrators.

There are a couple of snags though. First, because it runs in the background, it does consume a fair bit of memory, especially if you're trying to squeeze every bit of memory for whatever else you're doing.

Second; it will prevent you from shutting your system down. I kept getting the following warning logged in the event logs.

Source: USER32
EventID: 1073
Description: The attempt to reboot <yourComputerName> failed 

 I figured out after discovering that when the Build Ticker loads at system bootup, the options window for it load as well. It doesn't appear on the desktop unless you select it by the Alt-Tab method.

So now, before shutting down, I right click on the Build Ticker icon in the tray and click exit. System will happily power down after that.