Delay In Shutdown

[Shukla]

My PC is taking long time to shutdown from few days and sometimes windows shows error that desktop is not responding and asked me to force shutdown . Please help .

 

[britny]

After click the Shutdown butten . Go to start , type regedit, in the run box and press Enter and in the left pane navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet and click on the Control folder. Look for WaitToKillServiceTimeout, right-click it and choose Modify. I suspect it’s stored in milliseconds, in which case 3600000 represents 1 hour.
Test it first, set to, say, 5 minutes (30000

Hopefully it will help you

 

[TwoCables]

If this is the solution, then why 5 minutes? I think the default is 20 seconds.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yes TC and britny I do that in both the control sets - see pic - works a treat!!

Oops meant to add that changes that third set so you don't need to change it

 

[TwoCables]

I dunno, the last time I had to do this was in Windows XP.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I dunno, the last time I had to do this was in Windows XP.

Hum I got this from the Optimise tutorial and I found the 1 was is deal.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html?filter[2]=Performance Maintenance point 20

 

[TwoCables]

I dunno, the last time I had to do this was in Windows XP.

Hum I got this from the Optimise tutorial and I found the 1 was is deal.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html?filter[2]=Performance Maintenance point 20

I haven't changed this yet my shut down time is precisely 3 seconds: from the moment I click Shut Down, my computer is completely powered off in 3 seconds. Here's how I count it: when I click Shut Down, I wait exactly 1 second before I say "1" while looking at the second hand on my clock. If I said "1" as soon as I clicked Shut Down, then I'd get 4 seconds which is inaccurate.

Anyway, I haven't made any tweaks similar to this where I would otherwise get a longer shut down time. I don't know why it's this fast for me, but it just is.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

So I guess you didn't change the settings I did? if you didn't it would be interesting to see what those settings are in your regedit - usually 20000 in my installs.

I usually shorten the menu show time too as point 14 in http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html

 

[TwoCables]

So I guess you didn't change the settings I did? if you didn't it would be interesting to see what those settings are in your regedit - usually 20000 in my installs.

I usually shorten the menu show time too as point 14 in http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-optimize-windows-7-a.html

They're all at 12000 which I guess is the default in Windows 7. I didn't set it to this, but I just learned something about this part of the registry: this is referring to services that take too long. If a service gets stuck, then this waits 12 seconds before it kills it so that the end-user doesn't have to sit there waiting forever. Normally, Windows 7 should be able to get everything to close long before then.

In Windows XP, I had to set this to a much smaller number because I had a service that had a problem but I needed it in each Windows session. Fortunately, it never became corrupted by having Windows kill it before it was actually ready to close, so I left it that way and enjoyed an extremely short shut down time. In Windows 7, my software environment is different and so I don't have that problem service anymore which means I didn't have to tweak this part of the Registry. Everything closes immediately when I choose Shut Down or Restart just as it's all supposed to.

If you set this back to 12000, then do you have to wait 12 seconds for Windows 7 to shut down when you choose either Shut Down or Restart? If so, then you may have one or more problem services like I did. I don't remember how I discovered which service it was though.

Edit: I looked at that guide of tweaks just now, and I noticed that it mentioning using No GUI Boot. This one is a joke in my opinion because it doesn't make even 1 millisecond of difference for me. Using No GUI Boot means that your installation of Windows is now in Diagnostic Mode. Isn't that neat?

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hum must have a word with Shawn as I raised the Wait to kill to 20000 and no difference

 

[TwoCables]

Hum must have a word with Shawn as I raised the Wait to kill to 20000 and no difference

Yeah, just because someone makes a guide, it doesn't mean they know everything (I apologize, Brink!). If I were to go through that guide with a fine-toothed comb, then I bet I could find a couple more things that don't need to be in there - but I won't do that because it's not really my place to do so. At least, I don't think it is.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yeah and it could possibly be me mis interpreting it too:shock:

 

[TwoCables]

Yeah and it could possibly be me mis interpreting it too:shock:

Well I don't know about that because the guide specifically says that these tweaks help speed up Windows and improve its performance. I know for a fact that on my system, choosing No GUI Boot makes absolutely zero difference - not even by 1 millisecond. The same goes for WaitToKillTimeOut because I don't have any processes or services that are taking too long to close.

Some of these other tweaks may just be providing the Placebo Effect, such as turning off unneeded Windows Features, disabling Hibernate, enabling High Performance in the Power Plan, etc.

Anyway, I'm getting way off-topic here and I apologize for that. I love guides, but some of them have things in them that don't have to be there.