How to Make your Windows XP Shutdown Much Faster
One of the inconveniences that XP brings is it sometimes takes a lifetime before it fully shuts down. You may be wondering why I still post topics on XP, it is because there are still a lot of people that are still using XP on their computers, and I guess some of them are experiencing the eternal shutdown problem on their XP machines. The main reason for this problem is that one or more application is hanging up to 20 seconds while XP tries to shutdown. To resolve this I have here a simple registry tweak to force Windows XP to shut down more quickly. Before you jump into editing your registry it is highly advisable to first create backup of your registry.
The first thing you need to do is to open your registry editor. Click Start –> Go to RUN and type REGEDIT
Navigate to the following keys HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop
Scroll Down and look for HungAppTimeout and change the default 5000 to 1000 then click OK
Scroll down to WaitToKillAppTimeout and change it’s value from 20000 to 1000 then click OK. Don’t close your registry editor yet, we have still more values to change.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ System \ CurrentControlSet \ Control and double click on WaitToKillServiceTimeout then change it’s value to 1000 then click OK.
Now, navigate to HKEY_USERS \ DEFAULT \ Control Panel \ Desktop and change HungAppTimeout value to 1000 and click OK.
Scroll down to WaitToKillAppTimeout change it to 1000 and click OK.
Your done, your XP will now shutdown much more quicker.
You can put any values that you prefer but you must make sure all values are uniform on all the settings.
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This is what I call as an advanced tip. Thanks a lot !
Still in my office there are so many PC’s of XP and yes many time i come accross shut down problem and thanks for the wonderful steps you have shown above and hope it will work well.
Thank s for this post because when i shut down my system it show massage End Now and take about 40 sec to 50 sec but now it’s not show thank again for this post.
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thats is such a relief ,…. thanks a lot!!