Registry-value changes itself back

Hello NG,

since I have recently reinstalled Windows XP Pro SP3 on a THinkPad
X61s-Machine I experience the following problem:

when I change the value
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WaitToKillServiceTimeout

from 20000 to 2000 (to speed up the shutdown-process), the value has been
changed back to 20000 five minutes or one reboot later. Does anybody has an
idea why that happens?

Might there be any program on the system that changes back that value?

Thank you in advance,
Jonas


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List of installed Programs:
Windows XP SP3 + Updates until today
Norton Antivirus 2009
Microsoft Office 2003 Pro
ThinkVantage PowerManager
ThinkVantage Harddrive Protection
ThinkVantage Fingerprint Software

Jonas Pfeifer wrote:

> Hello NG,
>
> since I have recently reinstalled Windows XP Pro SP3 on a THinkPad
> X61s-Machine I experience the following problem:
>
> when I change the value
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\WaitToKillServiceTimeout
>
> from 20000 to 2000 (to speed up the shutdown-process), the value has been
> changed back to 20000 five minutes or one reboot later. Does anybody has an
> idea why that happens?
>
> Might there be any program on the system that changes back that value?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Jonas
>
> ==========
> List of installed Programs:
> Windows XP SP3 + Updates until today
> Norton Antivirus 2009
> Microsoft Office 2003 Pro
> ThinkVantage PowerManager
> ThinkVantage Harddrive Protection
> ThinkVantage Fingerprint Software

What are you changing values under ControlSet001? That's a backup
registry data set. The one currently in use by your host is under
CurrentControlSet. Don't bother editing the backup sets. You may need
them later after screwing over the registry, unable to boot into
Windows, and need to select "Last known good configuration" when you
boot using the menu. If you putz around in the backup sets, you won't
have a good configuration to go back to.