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Registry Hack: Automatically Kill All Running Programs At Shutdown

Written by Saman Sadeghi on July 23, 2007 Add comments

Program Not RespondingThis is a pretty big pet peeve of mine: When trying to shut down the computer, I get message boxes telling me that a program is still running! I always close all programs before I shut down, but that doesn’t actually mean that the program has closed - some programs still run in the background!

This Registry Hack will automatically kill all programs that are running, either in the background or in the foreground, upon shutdown.

As always, please read this important information on editing the System Registry.

How To

  1. Hit the Windows Key+R, type regedit into the run dialog and hit OK.
  2. Now that you’re in the the Registry, navigate to this key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
    The AutoEndTasks Key In The System Registry
  3. Double click the AutoEndTasks key (in the right pane) and change the Value Data to 1
  4. Close the Registry and restart your machine to enable the change!

Now, when you shut down this computer, all programs will be killed and the computer shouldn’t be delayed!

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    13 Comments »

    Comment by ms danielle 2007-07-23 16:06:57

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    omg that is soo annoying. i hate when i go to shut down my desktop, come back half an hour later and there’s that prompt telling me there’s a program still running! argh! thanks saman, i’m bookmarking this page for when i get home! :D

    Comment by Saman Sadeghi 2007-07-23 16:34:35

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    You are certainly welcome! This time should take care of that problem for you!

     
     
    Comment by Tech Bold 2007-07-23 18:02:53

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    Thanks for the tip. :mrgreen: I was looking all over the Internet for this. :sad:

    Comment by Saman Sadeghi 2007-07-23 18:35:17

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    Sweet! I like what I see on your site too!

    Comment by Tech Bold 2007-07-23 19:30:41

     
     
     
    Comment by Joshua 2007-07-27 02:38:15

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    Nice! I always get this one that has Chinese writing! I have no idea what it is, but it’s annoying nonetheless. :evil:

     
    Comment by rene 2007-07-31 11:47:08

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    This freeware solves this problem too, provides even hotkeying or shortcuts for really fast shutdown.
    http://www.ergoworx.net/fsd/index.html

     
    Comment by alper_istanbul 2007-08-02 02:06:35

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    Sounded nice to me as well and applied it.
    But when I tried to save an image opened on my firefox browser using the right click menu, I had to wait longer than before. The destination folder window’s opening sequence got slower. Then I restored previous data (0) and the problem is solved.
    I do not know whether it just happened to me but I would like to inform you about the situation.

    Comment by Saman Sadeghi 2007-08-02 23:50:45

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    This Registry Key has nothing to do with Firefox, this is a deep system level edit - Must have been a hiccup, but thanks for the info!

     
     
    Comment by Christopher 2007-08-06 00:30:13

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    WOAH AWESOME! This place is so full of useful goodness. *BOWS*

     
    Comment by Fe. Køs - Digital Designer 2007-08-08 20:46:25

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    Hello!

    I took your post and translated to Portuguese and posted on my portfolio.
    There’s any problem?

    I putted your credits, ok?

    Fe. Køs - Digital Designer
    http://portfoliofekos.wordpress.com

     
    Pingback by Hello to some friends-Part 1 | JMH Techtronics 2007-08-14 07:16:21

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    […] down and have it tell you some crap is still running. So does he. He tells you how to avoid it in Registry Hack: Automatically Kill All Running Programs At Shutdown. Such an annoying situation. Just shut down already! Saman isn’t always serious though. He […]

     
    Comment by Antonni Delgado 2007-09-20 04:38:44

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    AutoEndTasks.reg:

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    ;Automatically kill all running programs at shutdown
    ;1 to enable 0 to disable
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
    "AutoEndTasks"="1"

     

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