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After quite sometime your Windows Xp normally tend to become slow. Mostly due to miscellaneous services that get installed with time, making your PC slow. But there is a cool registry trick that makes shutting down a breeze.

Did you know that Windows XP keeps a couple of values in its registry which determines how long to wait before shutting down open applications and services once the shutdown command has been given . All you need to change those values, here how its done.

Step 1

1. Open regedit and goto ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\’
2. Select the ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ value.
3. Change it to ‘1000?.
4. Next select the ‘HungAppTimeout’ valu.
5. Change it to ‘1000? also.

Step 2

1. Open regedit and goto ‘HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\ControlPanel\Desktop’
2. Select the ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ value.
   Changet it to ‘1000?.
   Next Select the ‘HungAppTimeout’ value.
   Change it to ‘1000? also.

Step 3

1. Open regedit and goto ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\’
2. Select the value ‘WaitToKillServiceTimeout’
3. Change this value to ‘1000.’

But fellows please proceed with caution, because editing your registry can really make your PC suck.

Pranjal