When I shut down XP the "Savings Settings" takes 75 seconds and the
"Shutting Down" takes 15 secs. It didnt used to take this long. During
"Saving Settings" I dont see a lot of hard disk activity (drive light).
This is very long compared to all my other PCs.
Any thoughts on what might be causing this or some tips to speed it up?
thank you
Try the following:
Go to Start > Run and enter REGEDIT and press OK. This fires up the
registry editor.
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. Edit the
following keys:
1) AutoEndTasks: Default is 0, make it 1
You can also try the following settings under the same branch:
2) ForegroundLockTimeout: Default is 20000, make it 0
3) HungAppTimeout
efault is 5000, try 1000, if it's still slow, try
500. I don't suggest going anything lower than 250 though as it could
really make programs / services that need a momentd or two to end
act...funny.
4) WaitToKillAppTimeout: Default is 20000, try 1000, if it's still
slow, try 500. I don't suggest going anything lower than 250 though as
it could really make programs / services that need a moment or two to
end act...funny.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control
1) WaitToKillServiceTimeout: Default is 20000, try 2000. I don't use
this setting personally and it's questionable whether XP supports it
or not.
When you finish, reboot. Log into XP and then do a shutdown and see
how long it take.
If some of the keys above don't exists, just create them using the
right mouse button.
#1 is a String Value
#2 is DWORD value
#3 is a String value
#4 is a String value
Good luck.
- Thee Chicago Wolf
