Non-Responsive Tasks

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I found the following registry edit on a web-site and would like to know if
it is a worthwhile or dangerous edit.

Automatically Ending Non-Responsive Tasks
Start Regedit

1.. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTasks
2.. Set the value to be 1
3.. In the same section, change the WaitToKillAppTimeout to the number of
milliseconds you want.
Any input will be appreciated.

TIA, JAX
 
AutoEndTasks
HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop

Data type Range Default value
REG_SZ 0 | 1 0

Description
Determines whether user processes are ended automatically when the user logs off or shuts down Windows 2000.

Value Meaning
0 Processes are not ended automatically. The system waits until the process ends and, if the time it takes to end the process exceeds the value of HungAppTimeout, the End Task dialog box appears, stating that the application cannot respond to the End Task request.
1 Processes are ended automatically.
 
JAX said:
I found the following registry edit on a web-site and would like to know if
it is a worthwhile or dangerous edit.

Automatically Ending Non-Responsive Tasks
Start Regedit

1.. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTasks
2.. Set the value to be 1
3.. In the same section, change the WaitToKillAppTimeout to the number of
milliseconds you want.
Any input will be appreciated.
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Hi

I would not have set it. Sometimes a non-responsive tasks is not really
non-responsive in a way that you want to terminate it (it's just very busy for
a while before becoming responsive again).
 
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