How to make faster windows XP shutdown process?

Using this tip, you can make the windows XP shutdown process bit faster up to 50 percent than normal time. Normally windows XP takes time to close all running services and applications to complete the shutdown process, but if you have little experience to edit windows registry keys then you can easily manage the windows shutdown process.

Perform the following steps to manage the windows shutdown process:

• To edit this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
• First click on Start button to open "Run" and type "notepad" then press Ok button to open the Notepad Editor.

Now type the following code in Notepad.

 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Desktop
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="2000" 

Save this file with .exe extension (as registry file, for example shutdown.exe).

Now double click on shutdown.exe file (in this case), and click Yes and again Ok button to update computer registry.