Do you find your PC shut down very slowly, making you very annoyed?

Then you may want to make shutdown faster.

Is there any way to increase shutdown speed in Windows 10?

Why Is My HP Laptop So Slow? How to Fix a Slow HP Laptop?

Take it easy, and here we will walk you through four common methods to speed up shutdown time.

How to increase shutdown speed?

We will list four common methods for you in the following part.

create shutdown shortcut

Why is your HP laptop running slow?

How to fix a slow HP laptop?

From this post, you could figure out many details about this common issue.

change WaitToKillServiceTimeout

Step 1: Right-punch the blank area in the Windows Desktop, chooseNew > Shortcut.

Step 2: TypeShutdown.exe -s -t 00in the text box, typeNextandFinish.

If you want to shut down the PC, click this shortcut.

disable page file at shutdown

Usually, Windows waits for five seconds.

To speed up shutdown time, you’re free to choose to edit the Windows Registry key.

Step 1: Hold onWindowsandRkeys at the same time to launch theRunwindow.

dsiable clear virtual memory pagefile

Step 3: Go to this key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control.

Step 4: Double-press theWaitToKillServiceTimeoutkey and set its value data from5000to2000(means 2 seconds).

Step 5: Go toHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.

Step 6: ChooseNew > String Valueto create created 2 REG_SZ values.

Step 7: Name one asHungAppTimeoutand give it a value of 2000.

Then, name another key asWaitToKillAppTimeOutand set its value data to 2000.

All these operations can decrease the time that Windows will wait for applications and services.

Step 3: Double-click onClearPageFileAtShutdownand set the value data to0.

So, turn this setting off.

Step 1: Typesecpol.mscin the Run box and clickOK.

Step 2: Go toLocal Policies>Security Options >Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefileand disable it.

Now, four methods to speed up shutdown time are introduced to you.

just try them to increase shutdown speed if Windows takes much time to turn off.