You must have been in a situation where you’re pissed off because of a slow computer shutdown while you’re in a hurry. If you take a shortcut by shutting down by force before the shutdown process is complete you put yourself at risk of damaging your computer or notebook. Then how to accelerate computer shutdown?
You can speed up computer shutdown by modifying Windows registry key. After going through the following registry modification procedure you will notice an increase in shutdown process. As usual before you proceed you’re advised to make a full back-up of your computer registry just in case you’re not following the procedure correctly. Note that this tips is only applicable for computer running Windows XP/Vista/7, other window versions may have different registry key locations.
In this case I do the registry modification in Windows Vista to make the computer shutdown faster. When your computer is being shutdown, your machine needs time that must be passed until the process is complete to ensure and all Windows system is closed. By default, Windows set twenty seconds as the time needed to perform this which is simply too long. You can cut down this shutdown process with a simple registry settings tweaking.
Folow the step-by-step guide carefully otherwise you will end up getting a painful consequence because if you perform the following procedure the wrong way, your computer won’t boot up
1. Click [Start] and then on the box [Start Search] typing [regedit].
2. In the windows registry locate the following key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl]
3. Once you find it, while on the right pane, right-click on [WaitToKillServiceTimeout] and select [Modify] ,
2. In the windows registry locate the following key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl]
3. Once you find it, while on the right pane, right-click on [WaitToKillServiceTimeout] and select [Modify] ,
Under EditString window , change the default number of 20.000 with a figure between 5000-10000. Do not put with figures under 5000, because by doing so you do a force shutdown. If you set the figure to 6000 it means you set your computer to shutdown in six seconds After you specify the numbers click [OK] and exit the registry then shutdown the computer twice. Your computer will now shutdown within the time you have set above.
Now you have fix a slow computer shutdown and hopefully won’t ask others the question why is my computer so slow? 