Slow shutdown

[sapiens74 0]

I saw it somewhere in the forums about a command in the registry for the timeout for services shutting down faster.

 

Can anyone give me some info on it.

 

My XP takes too long to shut down

[Sampson 0]

Don't know if this is what you are looking for, but these are a few things that might speed up shutdown:

Registry hack:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q305788

Two possible registry hacks worked out by others:

http://www.aumha.org/downloads/autoend.zip

http://www.aumha.org/downloads/shutmedown.zip

A suggestion in relation to Nvidia cards:

In Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services, stop the Nvidia Driver Helper service

[Davros 0]

Disabling the Nvidia Driver Helper service made my machine unstable when I tried it one time.

[bilston 0]

get xsetup from www.xteq.com

 

load the default gui and go down to Startup/shutdown > shutdown > program timeouts. Set them to 3 seconds.

[Christianb 8]

You should be able to save 5-20 seconds by disabling floppy scanning on shutdown.

-Christian

[Kysio 0]

Stop the nVidia service. In my case it works.

[Christianb 8]

Did anyone bother to write NVidia and find out what that service does?

[CyberGenX 0]

I never seen the service in action, always disable it right away! No problems here.

[lumpy 0]

Ok, If you don`t know how how to modify the registry - Then DONT.

Do so at your own risk.

 

Go to Start -> Run and type "regedit".

 

Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control"

click on the "Control" folder.

In the right window you will see this key "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"

Double click that key and set it to a value lower than 2000.

I set mine to 100 then Rebooted.

 

Works great.