Shutdown Windows XP Faster

Ěternal · 08-17-2008, 10:29 PM

Some people have noticed that they are experiencing a really slow shutdown after installing Windows XP Home or Professional. Although this can be caused a number of ways, the most clear cut one so far is happening on systems with an NVidia card installed with the latest set of drivers. A service called NVIDIA Driver Helper Service is loading up on start up and for whatever reason doesn't shut itself down properly. The service isn't needed and can also increase the amount of memory available to your system. Here is how to disable it.

1: Go into your Control Panel

2: Select Administrative Tools and then click on Services

3: Right click on the file "NVIDIA Driver Helper Service" and then select STOP.

4: To stop this loading up every time you boot up your PC Right click it again and select properties - then where the option "Startup Type" is shown - make sure it is set at Manual like we have shown in the image below.

also when you shut down Windows XP, the OS tries its best to make sure that all services (they help run things like graphics, printers etc) are shut down. But there are times when they don't close, thus Windows XP tries to give it the chance to shut down itself. This amount of time that windows waits for the service to close is stored in the system registry. If you modify this setting, then windows will shut down the service earlier. To modify the setting, follow the directions below:

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 to a value lower than 20000, say 10000 as a test.

gezelderman · 08-17-2008, 11:15 PM

question bro Eternal - -- - the helper service needs to auto-boot on startup to run the Nvidia card, yes?

Ěternal · 08-17-2008, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gezelderman

question bro Eternal - -- - the helper service needs to auto-boot on startup to run the Nvidia card, yes?

no bro the nvidia card will start automatically, but the helper service isnt realy needed, so you can set it as manual start up type and stop helper...

08-17-2008, 10:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ěternal Soul Of Nature Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: ... Posts: 879 Thanks: 180 Thanked 1,243 Times in 427 Posts Reputation: 15369	Shutdown Windows XP Faster Some people have noticed that they are experiencing a really slow shutdown after installing Windows XP Home or Professional. Although this can be caused a number of ways, the most clear cut one so far is happening on systems with an NVidia card installed with the latest set of drivers. A service called NVIDIA Driver Helper Service is loading up on start up and for whatever reason doesn't shut itself down properly. The service isn't needed and can also increase the amount of memory available to your system. Here is how to disable it. 1: Go into your Control Panel 2: Select Administrative Tools and then click on Services 3: Right click on the file "NVIDIA Driver Helper Service" and then select STOP. 4: To stop this loading up every time you boot up your PC Right click it again and select properties - then where the option "Startup Type" is shown - make sure it is set at Manual like we have shown in the image below. also when you shut down Windows XP, the OS tries its best to make sure that all services (they help run things like graphics, printers etc) are shut down. But there are times when they don't close, thus Windows XP tries to give it the chance to shut down itself. This amount of time that windows waits for the service to close is stored in the system registry. If you modify this setting, then windows will shut down the service earlier. To modify the setting, follow the directions below: 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 to a value lower than 20000, say 10000 as a test.

08-17-2008, 11:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
gezelderman Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 178 Thanks: 308 Thanked 65 Times in 47 Posts Reputation: 21652	Re: Shutdown Windows XP Faster question bro Eternal - -- - the helper service needs to auto-boot on startup to run the Nvidia card, yes?

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