Sunday, April 29, 2007

Improve XP Shutdown Speed

This tweak reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown.

• Go to Start then select Run
• Type ‘Regedit’ and click ok
• Find ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop’Select ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’
• Right click and select ‘Modify’
• Change the value to ‘1000′
• Click ‘OK’
• Now select ‘HungAppTimeout’
• Right click and select ‘Modify’
• Change the value to ‘1000′
• Click ‘OK’
• Now find ‘HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop’
• Select ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’
• Right click and select ‘Modify’
• Change the value to ‘1000′
• Click ‘OK’
• Now find ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol’
• Select ‘WaitToKillServiceTimeout’
• Right click and select ‘Modify’
• Change the value to ‘1000′
• Click ‘OK’

1 comment:

Charmell said...

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