Shutdown Windows XP faster

[editorawais]

I have tried it and now I don’t have to wait for ages just for my pc to shutdown hehehehe.

The steps are as follows:
1. Click on Start and select Run. Type ‘regedit’ as shown in the picture below. This will bring up the registry editor.



2. Export your registry backup in case you mess up anything. Its not really anything serious but at least you can bring back the settings in case you wander off from the guide.



3. Find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control



4. Click on the control folder and there is a parameter called ‘WaitToKillServiceTimeout’. A form will appear where you can enter a value. Change the number to a lower number for e.g. 1000.



5. Restart the pc so that Windows will load the new registry value. Now shutdown will be much faster.

[admin]

Please note that decreasing the time too much can cause data loss if some service was to save data and it was forcefully closes.
here 1000 means 1 second.
Making it 5000 will be a safer choice

[chandoo]

I didn't shutdown my PC since last summer. Thanks to Wapda.

[editorawais]

Thnx Dear admin your lines was in my post but wapda not allow me to post.

[preetycasey]

i like it

[Luv2fun]

aisy hi theek hai janab

[jianty]

there are many tools on the internet

[Gtelware]

Great Info, But I prefer to put my system on hibernate. It helps to open my all files & application on the place where I leave it... You can also try it. It's very easy & also helps system to start fast as compare to whole starting process.