Force windows to shutdown

[Champak]

Can windows 7 be forced to automatically shutdown/kill all programs running immediately (or preferably on a timer) instead of waiting for them to "gracefully" close? If not what's the best way to make autoit kill all programs (im not talking about my scripts) when I press the shutdown button without interrupting windows from properly shutting down important processes?

[JohnOne]

You want to ungracefully shut down windows without interrupting it's graceful shutdown?

[Champak]

Yeah, when you put it that way, I understand how obsered it sounds. What I mean are the programs that I as the user would have opened up that would leave the computer hanging on shutdown, force those close, and then let windows take care of the rest. Those are usually the programs and windows that hangs the OS up on shutdown.

An example would be an app that upon closing always asks if you want to save a file, that would hang up the OS on shutdown.

Edited March 31, 2014 by Champak

[JohnOne]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl

WaitToKillServiceTimeout

[JohnOne]

Or

HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop

WaitToKillAppTimeout

If it's not there you can add it.

EDIT:

Or

AutoEndTasks

Under the same key.

Edited March 31, 2014 by JohnOne

[AutID]

Edit: or maybe you mean simply this:

Shutdown(1)

You mean this? Edit: a small debug so you don't close scite

Example()
Func Example()
    Local $aProcessList = ProcessList()
    For $i = 1 To $aProcessList[0][0]
   If $aProcessList[$i][0] <> "SciTE.exe" Then
    ProcessClose($aProcessList[$i][1])
   EndIf
    Next
EndFunc

Edited March 31, 2014 by AutID

[PACaleala]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

F:>shutdown /?

[iamtheky]

add post #6 to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770300.aspx gets my vote

or a taskkill /IM /F loop through the array

Edited March 31, 2014 by boththose

[MyDream]

Well, I was looking for a similar solution to that and I found

KaFu post in this thread(first example code).