Is there a registry setting to prevent XP from trying to kill my apps ungracefully when I shut down?

[Dave Rado]

Hi all

If I shut down Windows XP from the Start menu, then if some open apps have
unsaved documents open, instead of switching to those apps and letting me
save and/or close those unsaved documents at my leisure, an "Ending Program
Please Wait" dialog appears. If I don't dismiss that dialog quick, it kills
the open apps ungracefully, I lose the unsaved files, and lots of temporary
files are left on my hard disk for me to manually clean up later. Is there a
registry setting I can change to prevent this behaviour?

Regards

Dave

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Do it enough and you will learn save your documents. Most of us have learned
this way! (-:

 

[Dave Rado]

Hence your alias.

Does anyone know the answer to the question I asked? No previous version of Windows exhibited this behaviour.

Regards

Dave



| Do it enough and you will learn save your documents. Most of us have learned
| this way! (-:
|
| | > Hi all
| >
| > If I shut down Windows XP from the Start menu, then if some open apps have
| > unsaved documents open, instead of switching to those apps and letting me
| > save and/or close those unsaved documents at my leisure, an "Ending
| Program
| > Please Wait" dialog appears. If I don't dismiss that dialog quick, it
| kills
| > the open apps ungracefully, I lose the unsaved files, and lots of
| temporary
| > files are left on my hard disk for me to manually clean up later. Is there
| a
| > registry setting I can change to prevent this behaviour?
| >
| > Regards
| >
| > Dave
| >
| >
|
|

 

[falcon]

Hire a f***ing secretary, to do that which you are unable
to - that is, save your f***ing work!

-----Original Message-----
Hence your alias.

Does anyone know the answer to the question I asked? No

previous version of Windows exhibited this behaviour.

 

[Alex Nichol]

If I shut down Windows XP from the Start menu, then if some open apps have
unsaved documents open, instead of switching to those apps and letting me
save and/or close those unsaved documents at my leisure, an "Ending Program
Please Wait" dialog appears. If I don't dismiss that dialog quick, it kills
the open apps ungracefully,

That tells the program to close things down, and a well behaved one will
close documents. If the program does not do so, then you are stuck,
unless perhaps you try changing the setting of the Autoend task in the
registry. With regedit.exe at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
in the right pane double click on AutoEndTasks and change 1 to 0

If the line does not exist, use the Edit - New - String value to create
it and set at 0 With it at 1, it just kills tasks immediately (often a
fix needed to prevent hanging up at shutdown), but I think your query is
at a deeper level

But learn to save documents when you go off to do something else -
especially if that is Shut down

 

[Dave Rado]

Hi Alex


<snip>
That tells the program to close things down, and a well behaved one will
close documents.
</snip>

No, a well-behaved one will ask if you want to save changes to your documents before closing them. All Office apps do that, for instance. But then Win XP's "Ending Program" dialog pops up and hides the app's dialog.


<snip>
Try changing the setting of the Autoend task in the registry. With regedit.exe at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
in the right pane double click on AutoEndTasks and change 1 to 0
</snip>

It was already set to 0. There must be another reg setting somewhere?

Regards

Dave