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Shutdown Your Pcs and Laptops More Faster

Started by Kalyan, Jul 25, 2008, 11:26 AM

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Kalyan

Shutdown Your Pcs and Laptops More Faster

Well we all know turning on and turning off a PC or a Laptop takes a lot of time. So if we come to know how to save the time than it can of great importance.

So let's see how to shutdown PC or Laptop faster:

1) Click START and select RUN. Type regedit to bring up the registry editor.

2) Export your registry backup in case you mess up anything. Its not really anything serious but at least you can bring back the settings in case you wander off from the guide.

3) Find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control

4) Click on Control folder and you can see a parameter 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout'.

5) Click on the above parameter. A tag will appear where you have to enter a low value as shown. (Enter in between 1000 to 3000)

6) Restart the PC or Laptop so as to load the new registry value.
Now you can see the result for yourself.

Remember Express Shutdown won't corrupt the Operating System in the long run.

You can also reboot down fast by typing this in the Run box:

shutdown -t 0 -r
-t switch tells the system how long to wait before shutting down and -r means reboot.