How To Shutdown Windows XP Faster
@meenakshisoni (400)
India
July 29, 2009 10:55am CST
people are only interested in speeding up the performance of XP and now everybody must be knowing the tricks in it. So I am going to tell you people how to shutdown windows XP faster .
The steps are....# Open the Run menu and type in regedit which opens the registry editor
# Go to the following location Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
#. In Desktop check the fields on right hand side .edit the Wait ToKillApp Timeout and put in the value as 4000
# Now go to the following location
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrnetControlSet\Control
#In Control check edit the field Wait ToKillService Timeout and put in the value as 4000
by this you computer will shutdown faster..
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8 responses
@somnath2001 (67)
• India
29 Jul 09
very simple process...you open the windows task manager with help of shortcut key(alt+ Ctrl + dell).in task manager you go to shutdown button,in shut down button one option turnoff is there.1st u hold Ctrl and then press turn off....then it takes only 2sec....
@bkneerajrk (773)
• India
29 Jul 09
Its just another method to what happens when you press the restart button on the CPU. It does not give time to save the files nor the settings and most of the times it will bring up the chkdsk utility when you start the pc next time.
@imacRuel1 (258)
• Philippines
29 Jul 09
I agree w/ you...even if I do know how to patch it to make it turn off fast...I wouldn't mess w/ it... but on some occasion...I do manually deleting of registry w/c I'm sure that it was obsolete & just remnants of non-existent programs/applications.
@LouieWpHs04 (4555)
• United States
1 Aug 09
I don't see the point of a faster shutdown of the computer.
I do see the point of a faster bootup, though. That's actually what i'm striving for is a computer that boots up crazzyy fast. Isn't too hard. It's simply having a lot of spare memory on your computer and not a lot of crap burdening it down.
I was going to get an idea of how much it costs and invest in a computer(or computer parts) made solely for the internet and that's it. No downloads, no nothing. It'll have simply Mozilla Firefox, and that's it. Nothing bogging it down. :D
@wahyueQ (223)
• Indonesia
2 Aug 09
Yes, it will make your computer turn off faster, but it also will make your computer broken faster too. I think we have to just let the computer turn off normally to give it time to fix the registry. If you turn it off faster you will make the system crash faster and if the system crash it will effect to the hardware. So I think don't do it.
@jbrooks0127 (2324)
• United States
29 Jul 09
You seem to have a lot of skeptics that this is a good idea. I have one more to add. When looking at my registry entries I found them set to "2000". Seems that changing them to "4000" would be even slower. Is there reverse logic here?
@bulzika (279)
• Dominican Republic
29 Jul 09
yes it's a good way but killing processes faster isn't a good idea. it'll cause some errors. If windows shuts down slower it's better to use registry cleaners to fix errors
