Skype preventing XP shut down

[Sara Li]

Skype prevents Windows XP from shut down on my friend's computer. I
click Start>Shut Down>Turn Off Computer and XP closes half of the
running tray icon programs but then XP just keeps running like the shut
down request was never made. I have to do Start>Shut Down>Turn Off a
second time to make it work.

If I manually shut down Skype.exe first the computer shuts down
correctly so I'm quite sure that Skype is the culprit. Any
registry-entry tweak to solve this without having to manually close
Skype prior to shut down? I've reduced the time delay in the registry
but that doesn't help. I need something like killtask to do the job but
I want it to happen automatically, not with a separate shut down icon,
that's why I'm looking for a registry type solution. Thanks.

 

[Ian D]

Try this one:

Goto: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
And set: AutoEndTasks=1

 

[Sara Li]

Try this one:

Goto: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
And set: AutoEndTasks=1

Thanks, Ian, but that didn't do it, either.

 

[Sara Li]

Thanks, Ian, but that didn't do it, either.

As a follow up:
The new Skype version 3.1 has a bug which caused the problem. I found an
older version 3, installed it and the problem disappeared.