Improve XP Shutdown Speed
February 13, 2007 by Jason
This tweak reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown.
- Go to Start then select Run
- Type ‘Regedit’ and click ok
- Find ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop’Select ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’
- Right click and select ‘Modify’
- Change the value to ‘1000′
- Click ‘OK’
- Now select ‘HungAppTimeout’








