Tweak Name: Speed up the shutdown of Windows
Tweak Type: Registry Modification
One annoyance that I sometimes have with windows is its randomly long shutdown times. Windows doesn’t seem to be doing anything during these times but just takes a long time to shut down.
Today’s tweak will give Windows a timer, forcing it to shut down within 3000 milliseconds. That should be enough to be noticeable on some systems. A word of caution: some programs do not like this tweak because it shuts down the computer before the program can finish its processing. I have only seen issues on a very small percentage of systems, most will work great after the tweaks is applied. (There is also the argument that if it is so easy to increase performance then Microsoft would have done it. The response to this argument is that Microsoft has been overly cautious in the past, enough to drastically lower the potential on new technology.)
Fortunately you can always change the registry key back to what it was if you have a problem.
Registry location:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
Change the value of the “WaitToKillServiceTimeout” key to “3000”.
If you need any help getting to the registry just ask in the forums.