Shutdown your PC Faster

On normal Shutdown process operating system do some scheduled task that are by default enabled. Such as cleaning pagefiles, closing background application and services etc. With a very easy trick we can minimize this process. For this you need to modify some registry files. But it is recommended to backup up registry before any modification of registry. Otherwise abnormal condition may come. So first backup your registry before doing this.

In Run (Start-->Run) type regedit and then go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

On the right side you see a list of variables find out the following three variables AutoEndTask, HungAppTimeout and WaitToKillAppTimeout. First double click on the AutoEndTask, normally by default its value it set to 0(zero) change it to 1(one), it will enable the AutoEndTask service. Then Change HungAppTimeout to 1000, normally it is set to 5000 and finally change the WaitToKillAppTImeout to 2000, normally it is set to 20000. Now restart your computer to take the change. From next time see your system showdown time lessen or not.

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