Windows 7: Windows 7 Build 7057 freezes at shutdown

Im running build 7057 on my Asus G50vt-X1 laptop and for some reason when I go to shutdown it will freeze on the shutdown background and not shut down. I'm not quite sure why. I have manually changed the logon and shutdown backgrounds via a regedit but it wouldn't complete the shutdown long before that. Any ideas?

Well for no apparent reason it seems to have fixed itself, but if anyone has an idea as to what could cause the issue with Windows 7 please let me know.

The only thing I can think of is that a program that was running is not shutting down properly, so stopping your PC from performing a complete shutdown.

Sometimes (this was on 7057 but not on 7048 -- I've for several reasons gone back to 7048) I noticed a long shutdown when I had an external USB disk connected --may have been pending I/O etc.

Check also there isn't a load of Networking activity taking place as well -- if you can physically see your router see if any of the lights on it are blinking madly and check the log --hopefully you haven't got an unofficial program like Photoshop CS4 from a torrent which is attempting to "Phone Back Home" for a license check etc.

Other things could be loads of system services / data bases (MySQL, SQL server etc) trying to shut down or paging files being purged etc etc.

Cheers
jimbo

I think it was network traffic, I made a vlite disk and got rid of all the services I don't need and it seems to be fixed now.