Shutdown is taking forever.

Hello,

I have a fairly recent Win7 Ultimate x64 installation on an SSD. After first install, boot and shutdown were incredibly fast. I have added relatively few programs (there are currently only 2 items which appear in the Startup tab when I use msconfig. Intellitype and the Bell Security bundle provided by my ISP).

Even after I had installed those two items, shutdown remained speedy. But now the screen will very quickly go blue with the Shutting Down.... message, and remain like that for 4-5 mins. I had a look in Event Viewer's Shutdown Performance monitor, and it is filled with RED X's. It has regularly started reporting over 200K ms for shutdown times (3 mins 20 secs or more).

The most common item listed as an Error is "RadialpointIDSAgent" which is related to my ISP's security bundle, but the amount of time is only 34 seconds out of 205. It does note that there is a 29 sec degradation which implies it was used to shutting that service down in only 5 seconds.

I found a post about clearing the virtual memory on shutdown. I checked via my Local Group Policy Editor and "Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile" was already set to Disabled.

I also found a REG file on this site entitled "Speed up Win7 .reg" which set the following reg settings :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001
"LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveSearch"=dword:00000001
"NoResolveTrack"=dword:00000001
"NoInternetOpenWith"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"MenuShowDelay"="0"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"
"LowLevelHooksTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="1000"

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"MenuShowDelay"="0"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Control Panel\Desktop]
"AutoEndTasks"="1"
"HungAppTimeout"="1000"
"MenuShowDelay"="0"
"WaitToKillAppTimeout"="2000"

I am still taking over 200 seconds to shutdown. Any idea how I can improve the shutdown speeds?

Win7 Ultimate x64
Intel 80 GB SSD X-25M
4 GB OCZ PC6400 RAM

Thanks!
DD.

Radialpoint may be the most common but obviously its not the biggest culprit because it is only responsible for a small part of the shutdown delay. What about the other apps/services shown in the shutdown performance monitor?

whs - That value (WaitToKillServiceTimeout) is set via the reg file I ran. It is currently at 1000.

Bill2 - I agree with you about AVS, and that's what is so annoying. I occasionally get other apps like WSearch, but none of them ever have substantial shutdown times associated with them. All of the time is spent in ShutdownKernelTime :


EventData

ShutdownTsVersion 1

ShutdownStartTime 2010-10-15T16:51:50.113575700Z

ShutdownEndTime 2010-10-15T16:55:15.831600000Z

ShutdownTime 205718

ShutdownUserSessionTime 4846

ShutdownUserPolicyTime 15

ShutdownUserProfilesTime 183

ShutdownSystemSessionsTime 6098

ShutdownPreShutdownNotificationsTime 888

ShutdownServicesTime 5000

ShutdownKernelTime 194772

ShutdownRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0

ShutdownRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0

ShutdownRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0

ShutdownRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0

ShutdownIsDegradation false

ShutdownTimeChange 0

As you can see from this latest shutdown, 194 of 205 seconds was spent just trying to shut down the kernel. That shutdown only had one other event associated with it, letting me know that wSearch took 3.7 seconds to shutdown instead of only .7 seconds. The PC had been running only 12 mins when I tested that particular shutdown.

DD.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I tried that, set the boot tab in msconfig to safe mode -minimal. Rebooted, and gave the computer a good 5 mins to sit there after coming up in safe mode. Then I clicked Shutdown, and it did the same thing. Sat there for about 3 mins with Shutting Down... on the screen.

I have a very minimal startup config even without going into safe mode. Bell Internet Service Advisor (from my ISP) and Microsoft Intellitype Pro. That's it.

Thanks,
DD.

When I had a problem like that under XP (awhile ago) I installed a patch called Hive profile ...something. It solved the problem of slow shutdowns. But I don't think that works on Windows 7.

In either case I think the patch addressed slow unloading of the registry / hive profile-- whatever the hive profile is.

whs said:

Have a look at Method 4 in this link. Maybe that is your problem.

Thanks, tried that. "Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile" was already set to disabled.

Also, reinstalled Network drivers from Nvidia just for fun, no change.

Ho hum, still taking 3 mins 25 secs to shut down.

I cleared the Event logs just to see if it would record more information. It seemed that not every shutdown was logged because some were taking a very long time but perhaps they weren't logged as degradations because they were about the same as other bad shutdowns. At any rate, a new culprit showed up in the latest logs :

This service caused a delay in the system shutdown process:
File Name : Winmgmt
Friendly Name : WMI
Version : 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Total Time : 53852ms
Degradation Time : 38856ms
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2010‎-‎10‎-‎16T23:44:23.758792500Z

Total shutdown time was recorded as 205 seconds, so at least this time, Winmgmt was responsible for about 25% of that time.

Thanks,
DD.