Win XP-Speedy Shut down/Start Up

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Win XP-Speedy Shut down/Start Up

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Found this at iamnotageek.com


Shutting down/ Startup

There's quite a few things related to shutting down your system faster located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

AutoEndTasks (set to 1) will automatically kill hung up programs for you. The next one is HungAppTimeout (make sure it's 5000). Next up is WaitToKillAppTimeout. Which should be set to 4000 (default is 20000).

Since we have the programs being killed after a certain amount of time you will also want to do the same for services. Change the WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 4000 as well.

MenuShowDelay is the delay between when you click and when the menus are actually shown.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="5000"
"MenuShowDelay"="1"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="4000"
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="4000"
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Post by UberNeuman »

Just used the tip - works like a charm... Good find, ©LINT... :cool :
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