When I press Restart or Shit down 3/4 of the time XP does not shut down.
It gets to XP is shutting down and stops forever.
Is there something I can check or look for to fix it?
This is a new install of XP and it has never done this before in the last
three years...
Thank a million
Pete Carr
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
