Showing posts with label Quick shut down. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quick shut down. Show all posts

Shutdown at a Particular Time

Every day we are in the hurry and need to stop the system at a particular time. Now, here is the tip which can shut down your computer at a fixed time. All you have to do is to follow the simple trick found here. I hope that this will help. Leave your comments here.

Procedure:

1) Right click on your desktop and choose "New=>shortcuts".
2) In the box that says "Type the location of the shortcut"
type "shutdown -s -t 100" without the quotation marks and click next.
(100 is time in second, you can give any value for that)
3) Give a name for the shortcut.
4) Double click to activate timer.

TO ABORT: (while the timer is running)

1) Create another shortcut and make the "location of the shortcut" to "shutdown -a" without the quotes.
2) Double click to deactivate timer.

How to Shutdown Quickly?

When we are in a hurry to shut down our computer, it will be closing very slowly. This tweak reduces the time XP waits before automatically closing any running programs when you give it the command to shutdown. Here is the trick..,

Go to Start then select Run
Type 'Regedit' and click ok
Find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\'
Select 'WaitToKillAppTimeout'
Right click and select 'Modify' Change the value to '1000'Click 'OK'
Select 'HungAppTimeout'
Right click and select 'Modify' Change the value to '1000' Click 'OK'