{"id":247,"date":"2017-08-05T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/shut-down-my-pc\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:10:41","slug":"shut-down-my-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/shut-down-my-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut Down My PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speed up shutting down your PC! When you choose to shut down from the Start menu, Windows attempts to close any open programs and windows. Although this usually works well, a stubborn program or error condition may leave Windows hanging for a full minute before shutting down (or restarting).<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nBy changing four Registry keys, you can speed the process up significantly. After you open Regedit: <\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Change<br \/>\nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\CONTROL PANEL\\DESKTOP\\WaitToKillAppTimeout<br \/>\nfrom 20000 to 1000; <\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Change<br \/>\nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\CONTROL PANEL\\DESKTOP\\HungAppTimeout<br \/>\nfrom 5000 to 1000; <\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Change<br \/>\n<font size=1 face=ARIAL>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CURRENTCONTROLSET\\CONTROL\\WaitToKillServiceTimeout<\/font><br \/>\nfrom 20000 to 1000; <\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Change<br \/>\nHKEY_USERS\\.DEFAULT\\CONTROL PANEL\\DESKTOP\\WaitToKillAppTimeout<br \/>\nfrom 20000 to 1000. <\/p>\n<p>I have experimented this on my system and works well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speed up shutting down your PC! When you choose to shut down from the Start menu, Windows attempts to close any open programs and windows. Although this usually works well, a stubborn program or error condition may leave Windows hanging for a full minute before shutting down (or restarting). By changing four Registry keys, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}