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alexia
post Mar 7 2005, 01:32 PM
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rolleyes.gif Hi
So sorry my en is not good .
I Learned This tutorial by Byron Hinson And i want teach to u today
1 - Start Regedit.
2 - Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.
3 - Click on the "Control" Folder.
4 - Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
5 - Right click on it and select Modify.
6 - Set it to a value lower than 2000, say 1000 as a test
by 6 Steps you can make windows faster to shutdown blink.gif

some body dont know what is Regedit ,
Regedit is Regsitery Editor And for run this APP go to Start menu and then RUN and then Type in Run Regedit .
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hars53
post Mar 7 2005, 02:07 PM
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Can you confirm for me that it doesn't do amything bad to your machine? I might want to test this out, but i want to be sure it's safe.
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post Mar 7 2005, 02:36 PM
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Anytime you edit the registry you can render your computer inoperable. Always backup your registry before you make any changes. Read how to backup and add to registry from a command prompt before you start playing with settings. If you make the wrong change and your computer will not start you can restore the registry from a bot disk using command line smile.gif

The registry tweak posted above here is only changing the timeout setting.
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="20000"

This is the default setting in XPP.

You can edit thet number down until you see a marked increase in shutdown speed. One drawback is if you have "write-behind caching enabled", this not turned off by default so anything stored in cache will be lost if you change the setting to low without disabling "write-behind cache"

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post Mar 7 2005, 02:52 PM
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Okay, so you're saying that... I should create a back-up of my registry before i change any of the settings, correct? And if i backed it up and something did go wrong i'd be able to recover it again?
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post Mar 9 2005, 02:53 PM
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To shutdown WinXP faster DISABLE Logout sound!!!

Start > Control Panel > Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices > Change the sound scheme

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post Mar 9 2005, 03:34 PM
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you can do both of those things to help speed up your shut down. but also you can go to places like google or download.com and search for optimization tools. i found a couple that work really well and also did my startup speed smile.gif
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post Mar 9 2005, 03:37 PM
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hars53,
correct, anytime you have to work with registy files you should back the registry up.

One more thing you can do if you are using XP is to create a restore point, back up the registry and then do the editing.

when you are done editing registry, restart your computer and make sure everything still works smile.gif

If you are using XPP you need to understand the startup process and how to "Restore to last known good configuration"(This is registry setting). You need to remember that if you have problem starting the computer after a registry edit you should do this first, if startup in safemode, that is OK because it does not update the "LastKnownGood Control set". Last Known Good configuration can be restored until you have a successful startup at that time it's updated.

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post Mar 9 2005, 04:25 PM
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Nothing will go wrong with that optimization, is work like this
Your computer wait about 20 seconds to start killling unrespoded programs and if you do this it will start killing programs when you decide (1000) wink.gif
There is many optimizations for everything, to speed up computer you can clean prefetch folder(everyone know this biggrin.gif ) just use google wink.gif
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post Mar 13 2005, 06:52 PM
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Wow thx for the Tip ! My computer now logs much faster biggrin.gif !
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