Software → WINXP shutdown Less the 2 seconds,

hello all, Hope you have a good weekend,was asking in another forum if there was a FAST shutdown winxp program ,(take me 15=30 seconds for winxp to shut down,
was yold no ,so i wnt looking, & found this,
YOUR OPINION Plz, "Jazzy"

1 SECOND SHUTDOWN WINXP

hello all, just out of curiousity went look for a fast shutdown for winxp,
YOUR OPINION about this program plz i JUST FOUND & INSTALLED IT,

it shuts down winxp in less then 1 second, I MEAN being,bang & boom, shutdown, am trying itnow sofar seems ok, but would appreciate your opinion, "jazzy"

just tried the "reboot feature also very fast,

Super Fast Shutdown 1.0. Have you ever wished there was a faster way to shutdown your Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer system? I mean instantly shut it down! Now you can! ... Just install Super Fast Shutdown and click on one of the desktop icons created to reboot or shutdown instantly ..

Super Fast Shutdown 1.0

Have you ever wished there was a faster way to shutdown your Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer system? I mean instantly shut it down! Now you can! Just install Super Fast Shutdown and click on one of the desktop icons created to reboot or shutdown instantly

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Warning: Superfast Shutdown is extremely powerful! Use at your own risk! Although it has never been reported, regular usage could possibly cause disk corruption.

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Doesn't sound safe. I'd rather wait 30 or 60 seconds for a nice safe shutdown.

I agree. If you want to reduce power consumption, you could always put the computer in Stand By which if I remember correctly, takes less time to go into that stage than a shutdown and less time to recover from it than a cold boot. Kind of like keeping an engine warm during the Winter without having to actually start the ignition.

In WinXP one can achieve SuperHyperFast shutdown by pressing power button. It'll work even quicker (the same warning referred in Merak75 post is applied).

The problem is with unsaved files... The may don't like it

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i could just yank my power plug, or hit the off-switch on my power strip, but i DONT because it doesnt allow Windows time to gracefully close files, commit buffers, etc..

doesnt sound too safe .. If you need your PC off that soon, just start shutting it down 20 seconds sooner!

geeze..

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I would be scared to use something that would shutdown XP in 1 second! There are files that have to be saved and I can see how corruption could be caused. If you want to Shutdown faster then try this tweak.

Shutdown Faster

Start Regedit.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.
Click on the "Control" Folder.
Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Right click on it and select Modify.
Set it a value lower than 20000.
20000 = 20 seconds set to 10000 and try it.

Mine was set to 2000 and I don't remember ever changing that value.

I have a bad feeling that this program sends some sort of kill signal to the motherboard, and then teh mobo just shuts down the computer, kind of like what windows does at the end of the shutdown process. Really, then that means, it would be the same as pulling the plug out of the wall, it doesnt sound like a safe program at all.

I believe the program simply uses the emergency shutdown feature in Windows 2000/XP where the machine is shut off as quick as possible without saving settings.

If only someone could solve the problem of getting Windows to start in that amount of time...

I agree about the time needed to write files to the hard drive. I just let my computer shutdown normally, WHEN I decide to shut it off. I remember formatting an old Win98 SE computer many times and two of the updates I remember getting from Windows Updates was a 2 second delay added to the shutdown and another fix to prevent a hang on shutdown.

whocares0 , there is no such thing a computer uptopia. Find a happy medium and live with it.

Just leave the PC on all the time. That way, time lost to shutting down and starting up is reduced to zero seconds without any risk of data loss or corruption...

If you do use this fast shut down software, check in event viewer to see if there are any errors. I would bet you will find some.

Why anyone would care how fast their system shuts down is beyond this young man in his thirtys. When I shut down my system, I am usually walking away, and could care less.

Life is too short you know!

Keizer

As a laptop user, I can tell you the speed at which your computer turns on and off become very valuable. For startup, a teacher can say many things and cover a few questions while waiting for your computer to turn on. As for shutdown, trying to beat the mad rush to get out of class becomes much harder as you wait for your laptop to turn off so you can throw it into your backpack.

However, I usually put my laptop to sleep/suspend and only shut it down when I'm on low battery.

"Have you ever wished there was a faster way to shutdown your Windows 2000 or Windows XP computer system? I mean instantly shut it down! Now you can! Just install Super Fast Shutdown and click on one of the desktop icons created to reboot or shutdown instantly"....
There is!.. shut off the circuit power braker to it.

That is pathetic. Of course it is going to cause disk corruption, even more so on a FAT32 drive.

Windows (like any modern OS) has a lot of things it needs to do to ensure the safety of your data and the consistency of the file system before shutdown. I would be very concerned if my system shut down that fast...

EDIT: I can't believe that someone would write a program like that and then provide it for download; of course inexperienced users are going to end up using it. I'll be pissed if I have to start repairing machines rendered unbootable by this

Why not use a much simpler method which shuts it down it 2 sec or so. Open task manager, click on shutdown at the top, highlight shutdown or restart(don't click on either, but only highlight by putting cursor on top) and then hold ctrl key while pressing enter. I do this on all my systems and never had a problem yet.

An overly technical report of shutting down windows can be found here.

Worth noting is the interrelation between "HungAppTimeout", "AutoEndTasks", and "WaitToKillAppTimeout":

If the messages aren't processed within the timeout period (registry key HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\HungAppTimeout), CSRSS will put up a dialog box asking if the process should be terminated. Using the registry key HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\AutoEndTask you can specify that the dialog box shouldn't be shown and CSRSS should just terminate the thread. If the the WM_ENDSESSION message is processed but the thread doesn't terminate within the timeout specified by HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\WaitToKillAppTimeout, CSRSS will terminate the thread. When all the top-level windows have been destroyed CSRSS will terminate the process.