Five Steps
to Make Windows XP Shut-Down Faster
By Mike Manchuk
We all know
that pulling the power to your computer
has to be the absoulute fastest
but not the best way to shutdown
your computer. In this 5 step tutorial
we will show you how to make your
shutdown as fast as possible.
Step 1: Stop
as many services as possible.
The more
that is running on your computer
the more your computer has to close
on shut down. Keeping a slimmer
running computer will not only make
your computer run faster but it
will make Windows shutdown faster.
Here is how its done:
Go to the
Start menu and then select Run.
Type ‘services.msc’ in
the Run Dialog Box and click on
OK. In the services window double
click on the service you wish to
disable. In the properties box for
the selected service choose disabled
in the Startup Type dropdown box.
Click on OK.
Its best
to restart your computer after disabling
a couple of services at a time so
if something undesired happens to
your computer you know what disabled
service needs to be re-enabled.
Step 2: Automatically
kill tasks on shutdown.
Windows XP
by default will ask you if you wish
to end a process if an application
is running during the shutdown process.
This little registry change will
tell Windows to automatically end
the process without your confirmation.
Go to the
Start menu and then select Run.
In the Run box type in ‘regedit’
and click on OK. Navigate to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl
PanelDesktop' and double click on
the 'AutoEndTasks'. Change the value
to 1 and click on OK.
Step 3: Reduce
the wait time to kill open applications.
When you
choose to shutdown your computer,
Windows will automatically wait
a little bit before it kills applications
that are open. Here we will show
you how to reduce the wait time.
Go to the
Start menu and then select Run.
In the Run box type in ‘regedit’
and click on OK. Navigate to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl
PanelDesktop' and double click on
the 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'. Change
the value to 1000 and click on OK.
Double click on 'HungAppTimeout'
and change the value to 1000 then
click on OK. Navigate to 'HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl
PanelDesktop' nd double click on
the 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'. Change
the value to 1000 and click on OK.
Double click on 'HungAppTimeout'
and change the value to 1000 then
click on OK.
Step 4: Reduce
the wait time for services to be
shutdown.
Much like
applications, Windows XP waits a
bit for the services to shutdown
before it starts killing them. Here
is how to reduce the wait time.
Go to the
Start menu and then select Run.
In the Run box type in ‘regedit’
and click on OK. Navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControl'.
Double click on 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout'
and change the value to 1000 then
click on OK.
Step 5: The
ONE click shutdown
More mouse
clicks equals more time. That’s
right, why go to start then click
on shutdown and select shutdown.
It seems like too much work for
me. Here is a tutorial on how to
make a shutdown shortcut on your
desktop.
Right click
on your desktop and select new then
shortcut. Now you will see the New
Shortcut wizard. Under the location
for this item type ‘SHUTDOWN
-s -t 01’ then click on Next.
Give the shortcut a name, I like
Shutdown. Then click on Finish.
Just as a
quick note you can do the same for
a quick restart just enter in ‘SHUTDOWN
-r -t 01’ as the location and
then you are all set.
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