Comments on: Registry Hack: Automatically Kill All Running Programs At Shutdown

By: Brian Bloomfield

Brian Bloomfield — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:03:57 +0000

I was wondering if this registry hack could be applied to Windows 95. I have machines running 95 that are set up to act as thinclients. Whenever the production staff goes to shutdown the machines, the batch file hangs because it loops automatically to prevent them from accessing the 95 enviroment. Any advice would be appreciated.

By: brandon alan scofield

brandon alan scofield — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:19:10 +0000

I am will try this method to accelerate shutdown process , but say there’s something wrong how can I recover regestry ? (tweaking registry is risky right?)

thank you

By: Antonni Delgado

Antonni Delgado — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:38:44 +0000

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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Hello to some friends-Part 1 | JMH Techtronics — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:16:21 +0000

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By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:30:13 +0000

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

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:50:45 +0000

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!

By: alper_istanbul

alper_istanbul — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:06:35 +0000

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.

By: rene

rene — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:47:08 +0000

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

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:38:15 +0000

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

By: Tech Bold

Tech Bold — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:30:41 +0000

Thanks!

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:35:17 +0000

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

By: Tech Bold

Tech Bold — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:02:53 +0000

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

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:34:35 +0000

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

By: ms danielle

ms danielle — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:06:57 +0000

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!