A friend of mine called me just recently and told me that Windows XP would take a long time before shutting the computer down. He sometimes waited for longer than a minute before everything was turned off. Since I was not able to visit him in the next time I told him about a software that could probably help reduce the Windows XP shutdown time.
The program is called Absolute Shutdown and lets the user set the amount of seconds Windows should wait before killing a process or service. When run for the first time it displays the current settings before Windows kills an application or service. This is usually set to a large amount and can normally be reduced without facing difficulties.
The wait time before windows would kill an application was set to 20 seconds and for hung applications to 35 seconds. I told him to reduce this setting to two seconds which should be more than enough and quit every important application before shutting down the computer. You can reduce this even further if you do not experience problems with this setting.
The settings become valid after restarting your computer. What can I say, he told me that his computer is now shutting down a lot faster than before. The software can be run from any location without installing it first. I suggest you keep it for a while to see if the new settings are not interfering with important processes or services on your computer.
If you do experience problems you should increase the shutdown timeout again to counter this. Users who do not want to use a program can change the shutdown timeouts in the Registry.
The first two settings can be found in the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop. They are called HungAppTimeout and WaitToKillAppTimeout. You should also set the key AutoEndTasks to 1 if it is not set to this value already.
The timeout settings for Services can be found in the Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control and is called WaitToKillServiceTimeout. The value is entered in miliseconds which means that the value 2000 should be entered if you want to set this to 2 seconds each.
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Since I bought a master-slave multi-plug adaptor, I don’t much care about shutdown times anymore – now I just shut down the OS, and when it’s powered down, power is cut for all peripherals (monitors, printers etc.) automatically.
Of course it also works the other way around; I just need to press the power button on the desktop in the morning, where before I had to press the master switch and then turn on the PC. (Silly as it sounds, that makes a huge difference.)
That’s ~15 EUR well spent.
pour arreter windows rapidement
s = arret electrique
f = arret force des programmes et services
t = delais 00 = pas d’attente
creer un script arret.cmd et y ajouter la ligne suivante
shutdown -s -f -t 00