Ever go to shutdown to reboot your PC and find it takes forever due to an application hanging? The default time to kill a process is 20 seconds of precious time. Now that may not seem like a lot but if you are in a hurry to get away from your PC and just want the darn thing to shutdown it can seem like a lifetime. Here is how to reduce that time significantly with a couple of reg hacks. Using regedit…
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Under HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop, change the values for WaitToKillAppTimeout and HungAppTimeout to 1000 or 2000 (this is in milliseconds)
Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop, change the values for WaitToKillAppTimeout and HungAppTimeout to 1000 or 2000
Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control, change the value for WaitToKillAppTimeout to 1000 or 2000
Use the same numeric values for all 3 registry settings. Now shutting down Windows should be significantly quicker.
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