Making Windows Shut Down Services Faster
If it seems to take Windows forever to shut down, the culprit might be all those services that it has running because Windows has to shut down each service one by one before it can shut down the PC. In each case, Windows waits a certain amount of time for the service to close, and if it hasn’t closed in that time, Windows kills the service. It’s that waiting for services to shut themselves down that can really bring the shutdown process to its knees.
However, most services shut down as soon as they get the command from Windows. So although it’s polite of Windows to give some services a bit of extra time, it’s really wasted time because in most cases Windows is just going to have to kill those slow services ...
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