Are you wondering why Windows XP takes half an eternity to shut down the computer after you have clicked on Shut down computer? It's not the hardware that's to blame, as is usually assumed, but rather the services that have been started.
This is due to the fact that certain services settle in the computer's memory and do their work there. However, WinXP now has difficulties shutting these down without any problems and has to force the services out. Unfortunately, this function is only activated after Windows has tried to shut down the services in the conventional way for 20 seconds. If you now set this time period manually, the shutdown will be considerably shorter.
Personally, I've gone from 13 seconds to 2 seconds with this setting. And this is how you can change it:
Shutdown-Prozess in XP beschleunigen – So geht´s
1. Click one after the other on Start choose Execute. In the command line that appears, enter regedit and confirm with Enter.
2. After the registry editor has opened, double-click through the keys one after the other HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\CurrrentControlSet\Control and double-click on the value in the right-hand pane WaitToKillServiceTimeout.
3. The number 20000 zu finden sein. Sie wird in Millisekunden angegeben. Ich empfehle eine schnelle Möglichkeit die Dienste zu beenden – nämlich in 2000 Millisekunden! Ändern sie nun die vorhandene Zahl daher zu einer 2000 around. You can set the values lower, but then at your own risk, as some rare computer configurations cannot cope with this value and the computer will no longer boot.
4. There is also another option in the registry to speed up the shutdown by automatically kicking out all tasks during shutdown. Go to the program as described above regedit and navigate through the path HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.
5. In the right-hand pane you will now see the entry AutoEndTasks on which you must now double-click. A line will appear in which you can 1 enter.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR USERS OF THIS TWEAK
Some users here are almost desperate because the shutdown was not faster but took minutes longer. Now it has been pointed out in the forum that this trick must not be applied or the value ClearPageFileAtShutdown must be 0. As soon as this is the case, Windows shuts down at high speed.
