Quick Shutdown Your Computer
Sometime you need to shut down your Window XP in a hurry especially when you are rushing for an appointment or doing something urgent. But the standard process for a PC to shut down takes time and you need to wait for a while before the Window is shut down. You can get some solutions from Quick ShutDown, a free, fast and easy-to-use shutdown tool that might help you in this.
Quick Shutdown makes actions such as shutdown, reboot, hibernate, standby and logoff your computer with one mouse click. When you are running QuickShutDown, an accurate miniature icon appears on the taskbar on the end opposite the “Start” button. You can choose to click or double click it with the left mouse button, and it shutdowns or reboots your computer. This tiny, memory resident tool allows you to configure key combinations that shut down and restart your PC. Read out more from Quick ShutDown.
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I use Marxio Timer because it has countdown clock so I can program it when these actions are to be executed and it has one important setting LArry says about – Marxio Timer has two settings to execute those actions by force or gracefully. This second settings just waits till you close all your documents and all programs with unsaved data.
[...] Besides changing the registry setting, another approach to do quick shutdown of your computer is via some useful shutdown tool such as Quick Shutdown. [...]
WARNING may cause data loss or corruption.
The use of any fast shutdown program is risky. The authors of such programs may assure us that they are safe. They are not. The only safe shutdown is one where processes are allowed to close themselves and this takes time. These programs work by forcibly terminating processes without allowing time for an orderly shutdown.
These programs should be used only as an emergency measure when a normal shutdown is not possible. They should not be used as a convenience.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA
or you could make an nLited XP install disc and make your computer shut down in about 5 seconds flat every time.