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« on: August 10, 2012, 07:53:37 PM »
There was a forum post/thread discussion where we were troubleshooting a problem with someone's windows setup, and it turned out to be a registry setting that was not giving programs enough time to gracefully shutdown on windows reboot/shutdown.

But I can't find the post/thread.  Anyone remember this?
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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2012, 07:56:05 PM »
http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=31258.0 ?
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« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2012, 07:57:55 PM »
That's not the one i was thinking of.  It was some registry setting that was somehow set to some non-default value for a user..
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« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2012, 08:00:27 PM »
Another shot in the dark http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=11582.0
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« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2012, 08:50:03 PM »
http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=11027.0
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« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2012, 10:14:37 PM »
Don't know about the post, but the reg_keys you might be most interested in are:

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
Entry: WaitToKillServiceTimeout
Type: REG_SZ
Default Value: 12000

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Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Entry: WaitToKillAppTimeout
Type: REG_SZ
Default Value: start with 3000

Note: this entry is not always there so it may need to be created

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Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Entry: AutoEndTasks
Type: REG_SZ
Default Value: 1

Note: this entry is not always there so it may need to be created.

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Luck! Thmbsup
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« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2012, 10:22:01 PM »
40hz, those are the kinds of values i'm talking about.. i wonder if i just imagined that thread..
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« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2012, 10:34:48 PM »
FWIW, a lot of "speed up" tweak utilities reduce that 12 seconds on the WaitToKillServiceTimeout setting. I've seen that cause problems even though reducing it does speed up shutdowns and reboots.
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