System Performance Tweaks - Speed up Shutdown

This tweak will speed up the shutdown proces:

To do this, follow the next steps:

  1. Open the Registry Editor click on the Start button on your taskbar, then click on Run and type "regedit" and click on OK to start the regedit utility.
     
  2. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control (see picture 1).

    Picture 1
  3. Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, named "WaitToKillServiceTimeout" and set it to  "3000".
     
  4. The modifications you made will be in effect after you reboot your PC.

 


Author:

Lex van der Horst

Date Added:

06-11-2004

Last Reviewed:

06-11-2004