Increase or Decrease Shutdown Time for Servers

Do you ever see the dialog box that pops up telling you that XP is waiting for a service to close? You can change the amount of time that services are allotted before the task ends. Here's how:

1. Click Start | Run and type regedit to open the Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to the following key: HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
3. Double click the following entry (or create it as a REG_SZ [string value] if necessary): WaitToKillServiceTimeout.
4. Set the data value as desired in milliseconds. The default is 20,000.
5. Close the Registry Editor and reboot the computer to apply the change.

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