Automatically Killing Tasks on Shutdown

When You start to shut down the computer, you wait a few moments,
and then you see a dialog box asking if you want to kill an application or service that
is running.

Instead of prompting you, you can make Windows XP take care of the kill
task automatically.

Here's how you do it:

1. Open the Registry Editor by typing regedit in Run.

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.

3. Highlight the value AutoEndTasks and change the value to 1.

4. Close the Registry Editor.