{"id":16115,"date":"2020-06-29T08:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=16115"},"modified":"2020-06-29T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:21:02","slug":"fix-windows-10-stuck-during-restart-or-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fix-windows-10-stuck-during-restart-or-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: Windows 10 Stuck at Spinning Circle During Restart or Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you restart or shut down Windows 10, it may be stuck on a blue screen for a long time with a spinning circle.<\/p>\n

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Actually, Windows 10 is waiting for running applications to exit. If they don’t respond within 30 seconds, you’ll get the following screen and you can proceed with a forced shutdown.<\/p>\n

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To speed up the shutdown or rebooting process, you can reduce the timeout for unresponsive applications so Windows 10 doesn’t stuck at spinning circle for a long time.<\/p>\n

How to Change Timeout for Unresponsive Applications in Windows 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows key + R to open the Run dialog. Type regedit<\/strong> and hit Enter to launch Registry Editor.\n

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  2. In the left pane, navigate to the following key. Right-click on the Desktop key and select New<\/strong> -> String Value<\/strong>.
    \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop<\/code><\/p>\n

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  3. Name the new string “HungAppTimeout<\/strong>“, and then double-click it to modify. Enter a number between 1000 and 20000 in milliseconds and click OK<\/strong>. A low number means the app will be considered as unresponsive shortly.\n

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  4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control<\/code> and create a new string named WaitToKillServiceTimeout<\/strong>, which works the same as “HungAppTimeout”, but it applies to services instead of applications. Don’t set this value below 2000 milliseconds.<\/li>\n
  5. Close Registry Editor when you’re done. You’ll have to restart Windows for the change to take effect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    When you restart or shut down Windows 10, it may be stuck on a blue screen for a long time with a spinning circle. Actually, Windows 10 is waiting for running applications to exit. If they don’t respond within 30 seconds, you’ll get the following screen and you can proceed with a forced shutdown. To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4510,4509,4511],"class_list":["post-16115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-change-hungapptimeout","tag-change-timeout-for-unresponsive-applications","tag-speed-windows-10-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16123,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16115\/revisions\/16123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}