Slow shutdown, quick way of finding out why ?

Snow-Munki · 6 Jun 2006 at 11:43

recently my PC has been taking ages to shut down, at least a good 5 mins. Reckon it must be some application that is just taking ages to close.

Is there a qucik way of finding out what application this is ?

Thanks

SiriusB · 6 Jun 2006 at 11:54

I don't think there is. Quickest method though is to try and remember what you might have installed recently. Otherwise it is a case of trial and error. Before you spend lots of time doing this though, boot into Safe Mode and shutdown. If it is slow in Safe Mode then it is Windows itself that is the problem.

SiriusB

Kerplunk · 6 Jun 2006 at 12:02

Get XP-Antispy, its a funky little program and in the options select 'Enable Fast Shutdown'

Jobs a guddin'

SinaiSound · 6 Jun 2006 at 13:39

There's a few registry tweaks you can apply to improve the speed that a PC shuts down

Open REGEDIT and navigate to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\’
Highlight the ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ value.
Set it to ‘1000′.
Now highlight the ‘HungAppTimeout’ value
Set it to ‘1000′ also.

The second part of this tip changes the same settings, this time for all users on the system.

Open REGEDIT and navigate to ‘HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control

Panel\Desktop’
Highlight the ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ value.
Set it to ‘1000′.
Now highlight the ‘HungAppTimeout’ value.
Set it to ‘1000′ also.

In the third part of this tip, we will alter a second registry setting to decrease the amount of time Windows XP will wait before shutting down active services after receiving a shut down command.

Open REGEDIT and navigate to

‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\’

Highlight the value ‘WaitToKillServiceTimeout’

Change this value to ‘1000.’

This should help to considerably speed up the time Windows XP takes to shut itself down.