Slow shutdown

#1 sapiens74

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Posted 06 June 2002 - 09:40 PM

I saw it somewhere in the forums about a command in the registry for the timeout for services shutting down faster.

Can anyone give me some info on it.

My XP takes too long to shut down

#2 Sampson

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Posted 06 June 2002 - 11:18 PM

Don't know if this is what you are looking for, but these are a few things that might speed up shutdown:
Registry hack:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q305788
Two possible registry hacks worked out by others:
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/autoend.zip
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/shutmedown.zip
A suggestion in relation to Nvidia cards:
In Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services, stop the Nvidia Driver Helper service

#3 Davros

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Posted 07 June 2002 - 06:48 AM

Disabling the Nvidia Driver Helper service made my machine unstable when I tried it one time.

#4 bilston

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Posted 08 June 2002 - 01:09 AM

get xsetup from www.xteq.com

load the default gui and go down to Startup/shutdown > shutdown > program timeouts. Set them to 3 seconds.

#5 Christianb

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Posted 08 June 2002 - 03:09 AM

You should be able to save 5-20 seconds by disabling floppy scanning on shutdown.
-Christian

#6 Kysio

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Posted 10 June 2002 - 12:25 PM

Stop the nVidia service. In my case it works.

#7 Christianb

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Posted 11 June 2002 - 12:07 AM

Did anyone bother to write NVidia and find out what that service does?

#8 CyberGenX

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Posted 11 June 2002 - 12:31 AM

I never seen the service in action, always disable it right away! No problems here.

#9 lumpy

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Posted 17 June 2002 - 10:42 AM

Ok, If you don`t know how how to modify the registry - Then DONT.
Do so at your own risk.

Go to Start -> Run and type "regedit".

Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control"
click on the "Control" folder.
In the right window you will see this key "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Double click that key and set it to a value lower than 2000.
I set mine to 100 then Rebooted.

Works great.