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\Control’
- Select
‘WaitToKillServiceTimeout’
- Right click and
select ‘Modify’
- Change the value to
‘1000′
- Click ‘OK’
It's not only start-up that you'd like to speed up; you can also
make sure that your system shuts down faster. If shutting down
XP takes what seems to be an inordinate amount of time, here are
a couple of steps you can take to speed up the shutdown process: - Don't have XP clear your paging file at shutdown. For
security reasons, you can have XP clear your paging file (pagefile.sys)
of its contents whenever you shut down. Your paging file is
used to store temporary files and data, but when your system
shuts down, information stays in the file. Some people
prefer to have the paging file cleared at shutdown because
sensitive information such as unencrypted passwords
sometimes ends up in the file. However, clearing the paging
file can slow shutdown times significantly, so if extreme
security isn't a high priority, you might not want to clear
it. To shut down XP without clearing your paging file, run
the Registry Editor (click Start > Run, then type regedit
in the Run box) and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management - Change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0. Close
the Registry, and restart your computer. Whenever you turn
off XP from now on, the paging file won't be cleared, and
you should be able to shut down more quickly.
Note: Please be careful when editing the Registry; you
can do a lot of damage here. Don't change or delete anything
unless you know exactly what it is.
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