Programs run at shutdown

[Steve]

I've got a clean-up tool that runs when you shutdown your PC.
How do you prevent your PC from shutting down before the tool has
finished ?

Cheers,
Steve.

 

[Rich Barry]

Steve, if you enable Clear Pagefile on shutdown you will increase the
shutdown time. It's a round about way but it will work
and you will always have a fresh page file on reboot.
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm#clear_page_file

 

[q_q_anonymous]

I've got a clean-up tool that runs when you shutdown your PC.
How do you prevent your PC from shutting down before the tool has
finished ?

Cheers,
Steve.

why dont' you tell us the name of the "clean-up" tool.

read the manual for the clean-up tool

 

[MAP]

I've got a clean-up tool that runs when you shutdown your PC.
How do you prevent your PC from shutting down before the tool has
finished ?

Cheers,
Steve.

The WaitToKillServiceTimeout value name in the registry allows you to
specify a length of time that the service control manager must wait for
services to complete the shut-down request. Open Registry Editor and
navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\WaitToKillServiceTimeout
Increase the Service timeout value (default being 20000ms) to your
preference.

It is best to backup your registry before you make changes to it, here is a
free and very good tool for doing so.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Good Luck.