Force Windows to Shutdown Quickly
Sometimes we are in quite hurry and need to shutdown the computer faster, but if we have some programs running, Windows Does not let us do that, instead presents us with a pointless message box asking to Kill many task manually. That irritates and the point is we know we have to shutdown the computer As soon as possible, If not we could have closed everything and then shutdown, Right ? So, How can we force windows to shutdown quickly ?
Force windows shutdown quickly
[stextbox id="info"] Can we tell the computer to kill applications forcefully without asking ?[/stextbox]
Yes, In this Registry tip, We are going to see how can we modify some hidden settings to force windows shutdown quickly.
Let’s Do it
- Open Registry Editor
- Navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop”.
- In Right Side,Right click anywhere and select New = > String Value
- Name it “HungAppTimeOut” (without quotes)
- Double click on this new value and enter 1000 (1000 is millisecond value)
- Close the registry editor and you are done.
Now Next time, It wont ask you to kill anything instead will kill the apps in 1 second. So you have just force windows to shutdown quickly instead of taking much time.
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Be careful while editing the registry, It’s very easy to make mistakes in registry and mess up with the computer. If something goes wrong, Don’t Panic and try reverting what you have done.
You can ask for help in comments below anytime.
So, What you think ? Sounds easy ?
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Nice one. By the way if you type “shutdown -s -t 10″ without the quotes then also pc will shut down in 10 seconds… but if you want to stop this shutdown then you need to type shutdown -a or shutdown /a within that 10 seconds.
yup. But shutdown -s -t 10 will not force it to shutdown until you put the /f parameter. means shutdown -s -t 10 -f will do the same thing.
okay thanks for letting me know
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this is Really very nice trick
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Good tick but do makesure this wont let your window save any setting to any file!
Right Shashank,
IF you notice in first line itself we mentioned it is only good if we shutdown the computer in hurry, If we have time to shutdown properly we first close all the programs then only shut it down.
not sure if it can harm your computer
Nop. it will not harm Man.
Subhash its not working in Windows 7. My computer takes more than 1 minute to shutdown. Any idea about it.
Do you have background programs and unwanted services on your computer ? Can you go into msconfig = > services tab and hide all microsoft services. what else you see there ?
Haha useful, but i think it can cause problems to those programs you are shutting down. Obviously killing a program and not letting it shut down normally can cause corrupt data if something is not saved.
But anyway, sometimes you HAVE to shut down your computer faster and plugging it out of electricity is surely worse