Slow Vista Shutdown 1

[electronicsfreak]

I have a friend who is running Windows Vista. He is wanting to make it shutdown faster. Well he went to use the xp tweaks they have for vista and could not find the autoendtask value in the registry. So he asked me to make a post on here for him and see if anyone knows how to create it or if anyone knows any other ways of speeding up vista's shutdown.

Thanks!

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon

 

[HughLerwill]

Current shutdown timings would be useful.

 

[linney]

You could try creating the Value(s) and using the XP Data-value (whatever it is in XP)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ WaitToKillAppTimeout
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTasks HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ AutoEndTasks
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\WaitToKillAppTimeout HKEY_USERS \. DEFAULT \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ WaitToKillAppTimeout

How does it Shutdown from Safe Mode?

 

[electronicsfreak]

I do not know how it shutsdown in safe mode. Yeah I started to have him create those very same values however, the one for autoend task is confusing. Im not sure how to copy and paste that data for him. Is there a way to make registry export just that key?

There is a point in wisdom and knowledge that when you reach it, you exceed what is considered possible - Jason Schoon

 

[linney]

If you copy the Key you'd probably end up with a lot of values that apply to the host machine and not the destination one. Might be better if your friend sent you a copy of the Key and maybe you can insert any value and data and return it to him for them to import into the Registry.

 

[cpjust]

Thanks linney!
My Vista Ultimate was taking 5-10 mins to shutdown.
I added the following registry keys and now it shut down in about 10s:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\
   REG_SZ  WaitToKillAppTimeout = 10000
   REG_SZ  AutoEndTasks = 1
   REG_SZ  HungAppTimeout = 5000

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
   REG_SZ  WaitToKillServiceTimeout = 10000

I'm not quite sure which one (or ones) did the trick, but I'm guessing the AutoEndTasks must have been the biggest help.

I found the other Registry entries at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/34637.mspx?mfr=true