Many a times, programs like Office, Winamp and others, in Windows XP, get hung / Not Responding and clicking on close button just doesn’t work. Even the task manage “End program” feature fails or takes too much of time. Bill Gates made XP but then he didn’t tell us all. Here is a small trick which you can use to Auto Kill the programs which it gets hung or goes into status of “Not Responding”

Steps to set auto kill not responding programs

• Backup your registry first.
• Go to Run and enter “Regedit“.
• Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
• Here you will find a string called as “Auto End Task“, set its value to “1” by double clicking it. This means any hung program will be killed instantaneously.
• Now suppose if you want to give some time, as some programs come back to normal in few minutes, Find a key called as “WaitToKillAppTimeout“, change the value to the value you want. You have to enter value in milliseconds though.

See the image for a clear view of what you are going to do

If anything goes wrong, use your backed up registry to get back to normal.!!! Check out more tricks on XP Twekas

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