Speed Up Windows XP Shutdown With Paging Files

The paging files in Windows XP are there to basically store your temporary files and data, and in XP these files are cleared everytime you shut down. So whenever you shutdown XP it takes time first to clear the paging files, and this can take time.

If you have information that is secure or you don't want anyone else to see then I recommend you keep XP clearing the paging files, but if you don't really care then you can get faster shutdown speeds by stopping XP from clearing the paging files.

To stop XP from clearing the paging files you need to do this registry edit;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management

• Now you need to find this - ClearPageFileAtShutdown
• Double click on it
• Set the value data to 0
• Restart your PC