Thursday, November 29, 2007

Shutdown Windows Xp Faster

Easy way to shutdown your Windows Xp faster is to disable clearing of your paging file.
Whenever you choose to shutdown your computer, Windows clears your paging file. It is used to store temporary files, needed for some applications to work.
Sometimes passwords can end up in paging file so some people lite it more when paging file is cleared on shutdown.
Clearing the paging file can make shutting down quite long, so disabling it makes shutting down faster.
If you are security concerned, you are not advised to do it (should stop reading this text from this point).
First you open "Registry Editor". You do it by clicking "Start", "Run", and type "regedit" in run box, and hit "Enter".
To disable "clear paging file on shutdown" find this registry entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

... and change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0.
And there you go, close Registry Editor, restart your computer, and next time you start up your PC, it will shutdown faster.

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