Tip 1: Stop as many services as possible.
The more services that is running on your computer the more time your computer has to close on shut down. Keeping a slimmer running computer will not only make your computer run faster but it will make Windows shutdown faster. Here is how its done:
Go to the Start menu and then select Run. Type services.msc in the Run Dialog Box and click on OK. In the services window double click on the service you wish to disable.
Be careful on what services to disable as it will cause your system to crash or not startup at all. In the properties box for the selected service choose disabled in the Startup Type dropdown box. Click on OK.
Services to Disable:
1. Smart Card / Smart Card Helper - If you don't have a smart card system, you don't need this service. As smart cards have really never taken off... i doubt you need this. Disable it.
2. TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper service - Unless you run NetBIOS on your system, you don't need this service. Disable it.
3. Uninterruptible Power Supply - Although I should have a UPS, I don't. If you don't, then disable this service.
4. Remote Registry service - This service allows one to remotely edit the registry through a network connection. If you are editing your registry remotely, then you are too smart to be reading this guide. The rest of us mortals should have this off for security alone.
5. Error Reporting Service - A program crashes and microsoft wants to know about it. Give up your extra CPU cycles to help Bill Gates polish his OS, or you can just disable it. Your pick.
6. Wireless Zero Configuration - Unless you use wi-fi, you can safely stop this service. If you use wi-fi, this is actually a nice little service.
7. Alerter - This is so useless SP2 turns this off for you. For the rest of you folks, you should turn it off too.
8. Clipbook - This service allows you to cut and paste across your private network. Most programs that actually allow you to do this use their own ways for doing this.Useless.Stop it.
9. Computer Browser - If you are on a LAN, keep it enabled. If not, stop it. It allows you to see the other computers on your network.
10. FastUser Switching Compatibility - If you keep multiple users/logins on your current computer, you should leave this enabled. If you always log-in the same way as the same person, you should disable this.
11. Messenger Service - Useless crap from Microsoft. Even when you use YM, MSN, Trillian or any IM app, you don't need this.Kill it!
12. NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing Service - If you don't use NetMeeting, you should stop this service.
13. Network DDE/Network DDE DSDM - DDE DSDM was an excellent idea by Microsoft that flopped. Disable both of these.
14. Remote Desktop Help Session Manager Service - you should not have it enabled unless you use it.
15. Telnet Service - This allows you to use telnet to log into your system from a remote location. It's a security risk so don't keep it enabled unless you use it.SP2 disables it by default now.
Its best to restart your computer after disabling a couple of services at a time so if something undesired happens to your computer you know what disabled service needs to be re-enabled.
Windows Updates can enable services that you have previously disabled. Check which services are running after a future Windows Update is completed.
You can still do tip 2-5,if you don't know or is not willing to risk what services to disable. The most likely service to disable is theming in XP(theme), and you will get a faster speed not just on shutdown but in your PC's overall performance,but you sacrifice how XP looks.
Tip 2: Automatically kill tasks on shutdown.
Windows XP by default will ask you if you wish to end a process if an application is running during the shutdown process. This little registry change will tell Windows to automatically end the process without your confirmation.
Go to the Start menu and then select Run. In the Run box type in regedit and click on OK. Navigate to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Control Panel->Desktop' and double click on the 'AutoEndTasks'. Change the value to 1 and click on OK.
Tip 3: Reduce the wait time to kill open applications.
When you choose to shutdown your computer, Windows will automatically wait a little bit before it kills applications that are open. Here we will show you how to reduce the wait time.
Go to the Start menu and then select Run. In the Run box type in regedit and click on OK. Navigate to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Control Panel->Desktop' and double click on the 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'. Change the value to 1000 and click on OK. Double click on 'HungAppTimeout' and change the value to 1000 then click on OK.
Navigate to 'HKEY_USERS.DEFAULT->Control Panel->Desktop' nd double click on the 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'. Change the value to 1000 and click on OK. Double click on 'HungAppTimeout' and change the value to 1000 then click on OK.
Tip 4: Reduce the wait time for services to be shutdown.
Much like applications, Windows XP waits a bit for the services to shutdown before it starts killing them. Here is how to reduce the wait time:
Go to the Start menu and then select Run. In the Run box type in regedit and click on OK. Navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->System->CurrentControlSet->Control'. Double click on 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout' and change the value to 1000 then click on OK.
Tip 5: Disable Exit Windows Sound
Like previous versions of Windows, it takes a long time to restart or shutdown windows XP when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled. To solve this problem you must disable this useless sound.
Click Start button. Go to settings > Control Panel > Sound, Speech and Audio devices > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds.
Then under program events and windows menu click on "Exit Windows" sub-menu and highlight it. Now from sounds you can select, choose "none" and then click Apply and OK.
Now you should see some improvements when shutting down your system.
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