Faster your computer’s shutdown

HowTo, Tech Blogs, General, Technology, Blogging, Windows February 20th, 2007

After re-installing my Windows little while ago, i ran into the old problem that most computers have and that is the shut down that takes so long.

To fix that you need to do two things :

1) Go to Run, type Regedit and open the registry editor.

Now, find the following key : “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop” and select HungupAppTimeout; double click on it and modify the value to 1000. Click OK.

Next, scroll a bit down on the same key and find WaitToKillAppTimeout ; double click on it and modify the value to 1000. Click OK.

Next, find the following key : “HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop” and look for HungupAppTimeout and WaitTo killAppTimeout and modify their values to 1000, just like above. Click OK .

And last on the registry…

Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control and modify the last key WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 1000. Click ok and close the registry editor.

Do not put the values lower than 1000 because you might get troubles later.

2) Go to Microsoft.com.

Download and install User Profile Hive Cleanup (requires validation of your Windows).

Once installed, this little app will make sure that all sessions on log-off or shutdown are completely terminated.

You can find more information about it on the Microsoft web site.

You’re done. Now you can restart your computer for changes to take effect.

11 Comments to “Faster your computer’s shutdown”

DS | February 21st, 2007 at 3:55 am

Wooow thanks a lot… but i think it´s HungAppTimeout Instead of HungupAppTimeout hehehe thanks againg…
Dave | February 21st, 2007 at 10:25 am

Can’t believe it,i’ve done something geeky and it works,nice one Carol.
Carol | February 21st, 2007 at 10:34 am

Oh, i will correct that. Thanks DS.

Dave, did you really did the geeky thing? Is your pc shutting down faster now?
Dave | February 21st, 2007 at 11:53 am

Yes Teacher,i did the geeky thing and it shuts down faster.
Carol | February 21st, 2007 at 12:18 pm

Good student!!

Glad it does. I wanted to put the value lower but i learned my lesson already. lol!
Dave | February 21st, 2007 at 5:36 pm

Do i get a gold star,miss,for being a good student.
Carol | February 21st, 2007 at 8:59 pm

You get a star and 5 RedBulls. Is that good?
Dave | February 21st, 2007 at 11:14 pm

I’m not sure about the Red Bull,i’ll just take the gold star.
Trey | February 23rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm

instead of changing your registry and stuff, download a nice little program called superfast shutdown. itll shut down or restart your computer in about 6 seconds, and after using it for a year i can say its totally safe

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Misc__Utilities/SuperFast_Shutdown_Download.html
Method: Speed up your comp's shut-down « Notes | May 4th, 2007 at 9:03 am

[…] whether this will harm the comp. though. I think I might be a little sceptical even now. However, this post by Carol of Carol’s Vault says it’s quite safe. The other alternative is to shove the […]
ricky plummer | January 30th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

hi carol wounder if u can help me.ive been useing nortons updates on a regular bases.nortons sees superfast shut down as a trojan ive been useing superfast shut down for the last 5 years even when ive gone into the quarantine to restore the file it does exactley the same thing over ive done updates recently. and problems started 2days ago its fine if i use superfast reboot.using superfast shutdown is a no no