See what windows does at startup and while logging off

kintomaniac · 23 Aug 2009

to see what windows is doing before logging off navigate to
'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System', in the registry, create a DWORD value called 'verbosestatus' and set it to 1
(u might want to try this if ur comp is taking too long to shutdown or start)

Tews · 23 Aug 2009

Very useful, thanks Kinto!

+rep

stevieray · 23 Aug 2009

Mine gives me the option of creating a DWORD (32 bit) value, or a QWORD (64 bit) value.

On a x64 bit os should I create a QWORD instead?

kintomaniac · 24 Aug 2009

Tews said:

Very useful, thanks Kinto!

+rep

thanks tews

stevieray said:

Mine gives me the option of creating a DWORD (32 bit) value, or a QWORD (64 bit) value.

On a x64 bit os should I create a QWORD instead?

i think you should try dword first

thenext8seconds · 24 Aug 2009

does this also work for Vista? Because I'm not sure what this is exactly supposed to be looking like.

kintomaniac · 24 Aug 2009

thenext8seconds said:

does this also work for Vista? Because I'm not sure what this is exactly supposed to be looking like.

should work on vista. (instead of showing "Shutting Down...." it will show "Stopping services" and maybe something more)

Lee · 24 Aug 2009

Set it up, but seen no real difference. Not sure if it is because my OS is x64. Maybe it should be QWORD vise DWORD. Will attempt using the QWORD.

Lee · 24 Aug 2009

Changed the DWORD to QWORD in the 64 bit OS, and it made a difference, however, it is only about five seconds for both Start/Restart, and Shutdown. Albeit, thanks for the tip. :)

MadMax · 24 Aug 2009

Lee said:

Changed the DWORD to QWORD in the 64 bit OS, and it made a difference, however, it is only about five seconds for both Start/Restart, and Shutdown. Albeit, thanks for the tip. :)

that's weird,I made a qword first after seeing your post but it didn't make any difference,then i changed it to a dword and now it works...

Dinesh · 13 Sep 2009

thanks +rep. very useful.