Vista - Shutdown

Hi Brink excellent forum glad i found it,

Yes i have done the full tutorial this will be my second go threw it as i have just had to reinstal vista ultimate "trojan" not related to any guides or links on this forum.

I got reboot time down to 64sec from 108sec was very impressed.

Heres what i see using task manager all apps are closed before shut down, does this help:



Using the shortcut seems to take me out off windows quick but im left with black screen saying "shutting down" for 3 mins +, this never happened before the reinstal "64 sec reboot using the same guide" so i wonder whats wrong, maybe will be easier/faster to reinstall again.

Dan it could be a number of things that is causing the shutdown hangup. The only true way to really find out what is causing it is to close each non Vista system program listed there one at a time, then shutdown to see if it does so like it should. For example, uTorrent.exe, Opera.exe, SmoothView.exe, etc.....

Utorrent will cause a shutdown hang you need to exit the program cause it needs to finish what it was doing.

What if i select the value as 20 or 200 instead of 2000? would it help more?

Hello Dinesh,

With those values, Vista may try to shutdown to quickly not allowing time for everything to shutdown properly and cause a delay (hang) for a bit at shutdown. You can try to see if it works ok for you or not. If not, then you can just increase the value until it does.

I will try to change the value to 2000, 200 and 20 and will see the reboot time and the one with less reboot time will be prefered.
But i have noticed that when we change the waittokill value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control, it will also change the value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet001\Control but it wont change in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet002\Control.
Any specific reason?
I do not know how to explain but I hope i m able to put across my message to you.

Dinesh,

CurrentControlSet is your current one being used by Vista.

CurrentControlSet001 is the most recent backup of CurrentControlSet.

CurrentControlSet002 is the older backup of CurrentControlSet.

You would only want to make changes in the CurrentControlSet location to affectively make the changes in Vista.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Got it.
I set the value of CurrentControlSet as 2000 and shutdown time was 65 secs and when i changed it to 200, it was 64 secs. but when i changed it to 20, shutdown time was increased to 67 secs. so i m keeping it to 200.
Note: In Windows 7, the default waittokill value is 12000 and it shuts down the system real quick if set to 120.

Yeah, that Windows 7 is better at this. I'll take note of that time value for it.

Thank you,
Shawn

Anytime Shawn, you are most welcome.