Very, very long shut down time

[error8]

For a month or so, I'm getting somewhere between 4 to 6 minutes of turn off time duration. This also happens when I restart the computer. It's written "shutting down" and just hangs there for minutes and minutes. I'm on Vista X64 and this is a very annoying situation. This has nothing to do with windows updates, since it's not installing anything when it hangs like that.
Anyone has any idea about this?

 

[Antique]

You might have problems regarding your system trying to shut down most of your still opened programs. And this problem might also be a cause of a virus.

Have you done a virus check?

 

[error8]

As I didn't encounter any other problems, I thought that a virus would be excluded. But I'll run a virus scan and malware scan also. Good idea, thanks.

 

[error8]

Virus check and Spybot Search & Destroy scan haven't fixed anything. I still wait ages for the computer to shut down.

 

[kalrith]

You might be able to stop some services in order to decrease shut-down time. On our Exchange server stopping all the Exchange services before shutting down or restarting shaves about 10 minutes off the shut-down time. You might have a service that's doing the same thing.

 

[corkyg]

Such a problem usually lies in Services being attended to. This may help find which one is the culprit.

http://www.webtlk.com/2008/06/16/windows-vista-takes-too-long-to-shut-down/

 

[error8]

Ok, reading that log it seems that there is indeed a service or services that takes most of that long time to shut itself down. I'll start closing all the unimportant services and see where it leads me.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

update programs that are always on the taskbar to latest versions, perhaps move your pagefile to a different partition. There are programs out there that'll drastically reduce the shutdown times- at the risk of data loss from halting programs before they can release their cache. Update your drivers too, and bios. maybe fiddle with bios; whether bios or the os will initialize devices. Be wary of external devices being connected, and leaving discs in drives too. Besides that, slim down the queue of startup programs (leaner starting, less to stop on shutdown). With vista, it seemed for me I had to either shutdown frequently, or avoid it like the plague. Windows updates you've been neglecting? Try using a defrag program that'll prioritize data based on usage/activity and also defragment the system registry. I had this annoyance often crop up on my vista installs- sometimes from remnants of old device drivers (graphics drivers are a typical culprit of leaving old traces that slow things). Stick to sleep vs shutdown, maybe give windows 7 a try; it's much faster with the on/off transitions

 

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