Vista - Shutdown

Hello,

I have Vista Home Premium 64-bit.

When I attempt to apply this tweak, after restart it resets itself back to 20000 ms.

Any idea why? I have Admin Privileges.

Despite it resetting itself to the default however, i find the system shuts down quite quickly, well within 15 seconds.

Thanks

Corey

Also, I noticed I have 5 of the Control Sets, plus the Current control set.

The only entries in ControlSet002 and 3 are Control>Session Manager>(default)

Why 5?

Thanks

Hello Corey, and welcome to Vista Forums.

The CurrentControlSet without numbers is the one currently being used by Vista. The ones with numbers are backups.

Not sure why it would be resetting on unless one of the backups is overwritting it. As a test, change the value using METHOD TWO in all of the CurrentControlSet locations.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn.

I actually attempted that shortly after posting last night.

I'm finding that the tweak will work for two or three restarts, then reset itself back to 20000.

I also tried deleting the 002 and 003 control sets, and after 1 or two restarts, they came back.

All my other registry tweaks that i've applied from this site work no problems. So i don't get why this one keeps resetting.

And I realized that the shutdown is infact longer once it resets to 20 seconds. Goes from about 15 sec, to 32.


As a side note: I applied the Prefetch and superfetch tweaks. Set prefetch to bootfiles only, and superfetch to program files only. I found it cut about 10 seconds off the reboot time, and the system seems a bit quicker.

Thanks

Corey

Corey,

You might see if running a sfc /scannow command may help if it's a issue with a system file. I'm not sure why it keeps resetting on you either.

Hum,

I'd like to hold off on that one. I have the Vista Glazz program installed, and I think that command will reset those 3 system files.

I did however apply this command about 2 months ago while messing with vista glazz. My desktop failed to start up, and i had to spend a couple days restoring the originals.

So I'd expect the majority of my system files to be okay.

thanks for the help

EDIT: just some more info: I have an Acer Gemstone laptop, and I'm running Spybot S&D teatimer in the background.

Update:

I've been messing around with tweaks all day, and have managed to get the system from a 110 second reboot, down to just 65 Edit: now 55

The real show stopper - Norton 360... what a hog. As soon as i disabled the start up of this program...

So, now I'm running Avast! and the computer starts so much nicer.

I also downloaded CCleaner.

As for the Shutdown tweak. I tried setting it to 100 ms just for the heck of it. This really sped things up, and after the 5th consectutive reboot, the settings are still there

Guess it didn't like 2000 or 5000 ms.

Time will tell. But right now my shutdown time is 9 seconds

Thanks

Corey

You're welcome Corey. I'm happy to hear that you got it down so much from before. Thank you for sharing your results.

Thankyou So Much My Laptop Is Now Like 1oox Faster

You're most welcome Rikky, and welcome to Vista Forums.