Often when Windows NT shutdown, a task will return as ‘Not Responding’ and you are given the choice to ‘End Task’ enabling this function automatically ends the task.
- Open the registry and find the key below.
- Modify the value of ‘AutoEndTasks’ to equal ‘1’ for enabled.
- The default time-out before ending the task is defined by the value of ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ located in the same key, this value is in milliseconds (default=20000 i.e. 20 seconds). You can therefore additonally change this value to speed the process up.
Note: This change will affect all users but value can also be changed on a user basis by modifying [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] and the same registry key.
Key: [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop]
Value Name: AutoEndTasks
Data Type: REG_SZ
Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)