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Please use the forum for Support of Vista,

My suggestion is to leave all the programs normally using the X button or exit/Quit the menu. This programs to correctly save their data that helps prevent tampering of data and lost.

Otherwise, you might want to try to increase the anticipation of the moment for a program to close by editing the registry. You can try the following steps. Back up all your data before you do edit and read all creation.

NOTE:

Change the settings of the REGISTRY can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the REGISTRY settings configuration can be solved. Changes to these settings are at your own risk.


1
open the Start Menu.
2 in the search box, type regedit and press enter. (See screenshot below)

3 in regedit, go to: (see screenshot below)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

4 in the right pane, right click WaitToKillServiceTimeout and click change. (See screenshot above)

5 type a number between 2000-20000 (2 to 20 seconds) and click OK. (See screenshot below)
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6. close regedit.
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