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How to Fix Slow Shutdown in Windows 10

 How to Fix Slow Shutdown in Windows 10 If you have experienced slow shutdowns in Windows 10, you should know that the operating system has a hidden option to speed it up. With a few Registry edits, you can speed up the shutdown process significantly. Windows 10 Shutting Down When you turn off your computer, Windows waits for a response from running applications and services. Depending on how your running applications respond to a programmatic shutdown request, the process can take a long time, especially if some service or application does not quit quickly, or completely ignores the OS shutdown request. There are a few settings in the Registry that determine the time in seconds that the OS will wait before forcibly terminate running applications and then shut down. You can reduce this latency so that Windows 10 shuts down and restarts faster. To Fix Slow Shutdown in Windows 10 Press Win + R and type regedit in the Run box to open the Registry editor. Navigate to following Registry key