Power off completely after shut down your Computer

Normally when you are trying to shut down your windows XP and some time you may receive the message “it's now safe to power off the machine”. Here you should change your system Advanced Power Management setting or edit your system registry to solve this problem and power off completely.

Follow the given steps to solve this problem with Advanced Power Management.

*First click on Start button then go to Control Panel.

*Open the Performance and Maintenance option in control panel then click on Power Options.

*Here Click on APM tab then select the option Enable Advanced Power Management Support box and press Ok.

Now follow the given steps to solve this problem by editing system registry.

1.First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.
2.Here locate the location to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

3.Here in right side panel, double click on PowerdownAfterShutdown and set its value 1 to power down.
4.Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Reduce the shutdown time of Windows 2000 and XP

You can reduce the shutdown time of windows 2000 and XP using some tricks. Actually windows XP take time to close all running programs and applications before shutdown, but you can minimize this time if you have little knowledge about editing windows registry.

Follow the given steps to reduce the shutdown time:

1.First click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option. Here locate the location to:

2.Go to Hkey_Current_User\Control Panel\Desktop

3.Here in right side panel, double click on AutoEndTasks and here its default value is 0. Now change it to 1.

4.Now in same side panel double click on value name WaitToKillAppTimeout. Its default value data is 20000; now change this value of WaitToKillAppTimeout to 3500.

5.Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Create One-Click Shutdown and Reboot Shortcuts:

First, create a shortcut on your desktop by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing New, and then choosing Shortcut. The Create Shortcut Wizard appears. In the box asking for the location of the shortcut, type shutdown. After you create the shortcut, double-clicking on it will shut down your PC.

But you can do much more with a shutdown shortcut than merely shut down your PC. You can add any combination of several switches to do extra duty, like this:

shutdown -r -t 01 -c "Rebooting your PC"
Double-clicking on that shortcut will reboot your PC after a one-second delay and display the message "Rebooting your PC." The shutdown command includes a variety of switches you can use to customize it. Table 1-3 lists all of them and describes their use.

I use this technique to create two shutdown shortcuts on my desktop—one for turning off my PC, and one for rebooting. Here are the ones I use:

shutdown -s -t 03 -c "Bye Bye m8!"
shutdown -r -t 03 -c "Ill be back m8 ;)!"

Switch
What it does

-s
Shuts down the PC.

-l
Logs off the current user.

-t nn
Indicates the duration of delay, in seconds, before performing the action.

-c "messagetext"
Displays a message in the System Shutdown window. A maximum of 127 characters can be used. The message must be enclosed in quotation marks.

-f
Forces any running applications to shut down.

-r
Reboots the PC.

Shutdown Your Computer Within Seconds

If you want to shut down your computer in a hurry, or if a frozen application prevents you from shutting down in the normal ways, then you can use the following procedure to Shutdown your computer.
This method is absolutely safe, but you won’t get even a single opportunity to save your open documents.

To perform this emergency shutdown, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to display Task Manager.
Open the “Shut Down” menu and hold down the Ctrl key and click Turn Off. Poof! your system is Off within Seconds. You don’t even get a second thought to think upon.

Create Shortcut for Shut Down

1.Right-click on Desktop

2.Click “New” and then select “ShortCut”

3.In the “Type the Location of the Item” type “%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe –s –t 0“



4.Click “Next” and type name of your ShortCut

5.Click “Finish”