Xp Takes Forever to Shut Down

[Brett M.]

I've formatted my harddrive and re-installed windows an
unimaginable times on my computer (becasue of random
problems and w/e). After about 2 or so weeks my computer
stops shutting down RIGHT when I ask it...It takes
usually about 2 minutes or just under for my computer to
shut down; in this time I cannnot run any programs or
open any windows due to the error message "this
application can't open because windows is currently
shutting down." After i notice the problem I ususally
install the windows updates, yet nothing other than a
format seems to fix this problem. Wondering if anyone
knows how to fix it.
if possible please e-mail a response to
(e-mail address removed)
thank you very much.

 

[Sammy]

Brett M. wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:

I've formatted my harddrive and re-installed windows an
unimaginable times on my computer (becasue of random
problems and w/e). After about 2 or so weeks my computer
stops shutting down RIGHT when I ask it...It takes
usually about 2 minutes or just under for my computer to
shut down; in this time I cannnot run any programs or
open any windows due to the error message "this
application can't open because windows is currently
shutting down." After i notice the problem I ususally
install the windows updates, yet nothing other than a
format seems to fix this problem. Wondering if anyone
knows how to fix it.
if possible please e-mail a response to
(e-mail address removed)
thank you very much.

Open up the Windows Registry Editor. Find

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\

- Next find the value HungAppTimeout set to 5000. Then locate
WaitToKillAppTimeout which is in the same folder and set it to 4000 from the
default of 20000 .

Then find the following

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\

and look for an option called WaitToKillServiceTimeout and change this to
4000.

When you are shutting down, we all would have experienced this message
before once or twice - that a program is still running and asks us if it is
ok to shut it down.

This feature would be a positive thing if you forget you still have an
important document open and it reminds you it still needs to be saved but
unless your think headed at certain times you do not need it!

To solve this we need to open up the Windows Registry Editor. Find the

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

and then set AutoEndTasks value to 1.

Sit back and watch how fast Windows can Shut Down!