SPEED-UP WINDOWS SHUTDOWN

One’s interest is not only in speed up of windows start-up but also wants system should shut-down faster. Your paging file (pagefile.sys) is used to store temporary files and data, but when your system shuts down, information stays in the file. Somebody prefer to have the paging file cleared at shutdown because sensitive information such as unencrypted passwords sometimes ends up in the file. However, clearing the paging file can slow shutdown times significantly, so if extreme security isn’t a high priority, you might not want to clear it, you can shut down XP without clearing your paging file.
Steps involved to speed up the shutdown process are as follows:
* Run the Registry Editor by clicking Start > Run, type regedit in the Run box and go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management
* Change the value of ClearPageFileAtShutdown to 0.
* Close the Registry, and restart your computer.
Whenever you turn off XP from now on, the paging file won’t be cleared, and you should be able to shut down more quickly