Saturday, December 01, 2007

How to speedup Vista shutdown

Set the following registry value:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control]
WaitToKillServiceTimeout = 1000

This will force all services to quit within 1 second (the default value is 20000 which means 20 seconds).  And if there is a service that can't do it, it will be killed, which is OK for a typical desktop system.

I also found a good article that describes this trick and a couple of more: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/10/31/fast-shutdown-faster-windows-2000-windows-xp-windows-2003-and-windows-vista/

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