How Do I Speed up Windows 10 Shutdown?
Contents Click the Control Key Folder, as Shown in Figure A, and Look for the Waittokillservicetimeout Key. Double-Click That Key and Change the Value from the...
Click the Control key folder, as shown in Figure A, and look for the WaitToKillServiceTimeout key. Double-click that key and change the value from the 5000 default to 2000, and then click OK. This changes the time Windows 10 will wait for an unresponsive service from 5ms to 2ms.
How do I make Windows shut down faster?
Press Windows+R, type “regedit” into the Run dialog, and press Enter to open it. Look in the right pane for the “ClearPageFileAtShutdown” setting. If the data is set to “0x00000000 (0)”, Windows is not clearing the page file at shut down. If it’s set to “0x00000001 (1)”, Windows is clearing the page file at shutdown.
Why is Windows 10 taking so long to shut down?
Most of the time they will be closed automatically but a conflict or a program not responding could delay the shutdown process drastically. This happens because that program needs to save data before it could close. If it isn’t able to save the data, Windows get stuck there.
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