The Complete Guide To Optimising Windows XP
February 6th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under
Improve XP Shutdown Speed
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’
- Right click and select ‘Modify’
- Change the value to ‘1000′
- Click ‘OK’
- Now find ‘HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop’
- Select ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’
- Right click and select ‘Modify’
- Change the value to ‘1000′
- Click ‘OK’
- Now find ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control’
- Select ‘WaitToKillServiceTimeout’
- Right click and select ‘Modify’
- Change the value to ‘1000′
- Click ‘OK’
I hope you found this guide useful and that implementing these tweaks will give your XP installation a second lease of life!
If you found this tips please leave a comment. Any good additional tweaks will be added to the Forum.
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Comment by Anime Sub on 12 June 2008:
Nice guide for optimising windows XP.
Comment by Mike on 17 February 2008:
Just Tested Jack’s link, seems to have changed.
Now contains 26 speed tweaks, each labelled with low, medium and high risk. Very useful for me so I don’t mess anything up. A slow pc is better than a broke pc.
Comment by killkenny on 17 February 2008:
Good work, helped me improve my PC speed. For all the haters- give author prop for spending time to come up with this- good/bad it depends on your level of understanding of tech subject. For a novice like me it was helpful; super techie nerds can point out loop holes in the post without being a NERD-thy know all attitude.
Peace
Comment by PCWizKid on 14 February 2008:
Great XP tips. If you r looking for Windows Vista Tips,Tweaks visit http://PCWizKid.blogspot.com
Cheers
Comment by Cesar on 14 February 2008:
Nice guide for optimising windows XP. I never used windows XP because I had an old laptop that won’t work with XP and my new laptop is preinstalled with Vista. Thanks anyway.