Speed Up Vista’s Shutdown Time

There are many ways that you can reduce the amount of time it takes Vista to start up. However, what about the amount of time it takes for a system to shut down? There are a few configuration changes you can make to a computer running Vista to decrease shutdown time.

One such change is to prevent Vista from emptying the contents of the page file when it shuts down. Although many people prefer to have the page file cleared on shutdown for security reasons, it does increase the shutdown time. If the speed of things is more of a priority than security, you can prevent Vista from clearing the page file by completing these few simple steps.

1. Click Start, type Registry Editor in the search field and press Enter.
2. Type regedit.exe and click OK.
3. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
4. Double click ClearPageFileAtShutdown.
5. Change the value data to 0.
6. Close the Registry Editor.

[tags]vista, windows[/tags]