Close softwares faster

If an sofware/app does not respond during shutdown, XP will normally wait for a while for the applications to shut down safely.This is great but would make shutdown slower.



This Registry Hack will show you how to shut down straightaway and not wait for any response from the application. Just open Regedit(START>>RUN>>Type REGEDIT)

Navigate to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

And to:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

The first one is user-specific, and the second one is system-wide. In both these locations, change the String value called AutoEndTasks to 1 to kill the application immediately, or 0 to prompt for user action.



WaitToKillAppTimeout controls the default time, in milliseconds, before killing the application. You can reduce this time to further speed up the process.



Back up your registry before you do it(click here)