Regedit Question

[Nooyawkah]

I am trying to enable Auto-End Tasks in Widows XP. I went into regedit and found HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop. The instructions I found online said:
Value: AutoEndTasks
(REG_SZ): 1 Value: WaitToKillAppTimeout
(REG_SZ): x, where x is the interval in milliseconds (default is 20000)

When I found HKEY, etc. I clicked it and a box came up to type in values. I'm not exactly sure what to type. Are all those things typed together? Are some of them instructions? I've never done this type of thing before. I do know enough to back up the registry.

Also, I could find anywhere to set the values to 20000. And isn't that kind of high? 2000 makes more sense than 20,000.

[YODA74]

Edit HKEY_USER\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop and add value AutoEndTasks REG_SZ. Set it to 1.

Edit HKEY_USER\YourUserId\Control Panel\Desktop and add value AutoEndTasks REG_SZ. Set it to 1.

This forces any task, that does not respond to the shutdown, to end.

You can also Add Value of WaitToKillAppTimeout with type REG_SZ.

The default: is 20000 milliseconds (20 seconds). If the user process does not end by this time, AutoEndTasks is invoked.



This here might help to understand a little better

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/199/