Decrease Application Timeout Setting
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When you shut down your computer, Windows will attempt to stop all tasks that are running. Windows includes an application timeout setting that tells your computer how long to wait for an unresponsive task to end, before forcing it to end. If you are experiencing long delays when shutting down your computer, you can decrease the application timeout setting.
- Click Start and click Run.
- Type regedit and click OK.
- Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.
- Double click the value in the right pane called WaitToKillAppTimeout.
The value for this option is in milliseconds. The minimum value is 1 millisecond and the default is 20000 or 20 seconds. This means that your computer will wait 20 seconds for an unresponsive task to end before forcing it to close. When configuring the value, it is generally recommended that you do not use anything less than 2000 milliseconds or 2 seconds.
You can also configure a similar setting for services. Expand HEKY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control. Locate the WaitToKillServiceTimeout option to specify how long Windows should wait to force an unresponsive application to end.
One Comment
Ab
January 29th, 2008
at 7:30pm
I need help about something like this.
When I leave my pc for a few ours (turned on) the apps minimized (and not minimized too!) sleep and they wake up so slowly. They get so cloged. There are no memory leaks, only something like a timeout on windows.
How can I avoid this?
I develop eternal-run-time-apps and this craps a little my work sometimes.
Ab.
amunguia@trafficsystem.com.mx