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How to kill non-responding apps right away in XP

ktr

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Nice registry tweak I found on the net, and works damn well.

1) open regedit

2) navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

3) change the following

  • AutoEndTasks value from 0 to 1
  • HungAppTimeout value from 5000 to 1000
  • WaitToKillAppTimeout value from 20000 to 3000

Now every time a non-responding app happens, no need to wait for it to end task, time out, or memory dump...this tweak nukes them right away.

Also, while your there, there is a small tweak to remove the delay of the start menu. The speed is significant.

1) in the same location as above, change the value of MenuShowDelay from 400 to 5. <---restart system to apply changes.
 
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Nice registry tweak I found on the net, and works damn well.

1) open regedit

2) navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

3) change the following

  • AutoEndTasks value from 0 to 1
  • HungAppTimeout value from 5000 to 1000
  • WaitToKillAppTimeout value from 20000 to 3000

Now every time a non-responding app happens, no need to wait for it to end task, time out, or memory dump...this tweak nukes them right away.

Also, while your there, there is a small tweak to remove the delay of the start menu. The speed is significant.

1) in the same location as above, change the value of MenuShowDelay from 400 to 5.

Very nice... It works well.
 
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Nice tweak, someone should have posted this before, did it awhile myself but good show, we should get a list of registry edits for xp and get them into a tweak sticky.
 
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The menushowdelay is in the Vista tweak guide. Works for all OS's AFAIK.

The other tweaks do not work in Vista as those registry keys dont exist. (at least not in that hive. It may be elsewhere)
 

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Nice tweak, someone should have posted this before, did it awhile myself but good show, we should get a list of registry edits for xp and get them into a tweak sticky.

Most of the tweaking has to do with disabling a shit load of service, features, apps from starting up and taking resource. Most of this can be done in msconfig...no brainer.

The second part of tweaking is optimizing the HDD to the best of its ability, and to free it up as much as possible. The bottleneck in windows in terms of speeds tends to fall on the hard drive been occupied. This includes defraging, and location the page file (ie. in front of HDD in separate partition, or on another HDD) Also disabling indexing (which i disagree to, for one it does make search faster, and explore will be faster for it does have to do much work).

And finally, the last sets of tweaking has to do with how fast apps can open and close. This is what i just posted.

Another is OC, but that is too a no brainer.
 
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Well yes, but there is a decent handful of registry tweaks that people don't know about was the general idea.
 

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Well yes, but there is a decent handful of registry tweaks that people don't know about was the general idea.

Not much than you think...You can see some in the sticky, but really not much that make significant difference. Most of the speeding up comes from msconfig.
 
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Not much than you think...You can see some in the sticky, but really not much that make significant difference. Most of the speeding up comes from msconfig.

Ohh I didn't even know there was a sticky that was the point in making one... :ohwell:
But I know about all of them, I actually have a list somewhere I wrote for myself when I re-setup so I don't forget anything.
 
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