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Strange Windows 7 shutdown times - VMware may be the cause
My Windows 7 system normally shuts down in 5 seconds - but sometimes it takes 30 seconds to shut down. At first I was puzzled, but then I found the circumstances.
1. When I run a virtual system under VMware Player at any time between Windows 7 boot and shutdown, the Windows 7 shutdown is 30 seconds. Note that the virtual system may have already been shut down 2 hours earlier. And if I later look into Event Viewer > Event 200, the shutdown time is registered as 5 seconds.
2. If I never run a virtual system between boot and shutdown, then Windows 7 shuts down in 5 seconds.
I really wonder what the system is doing during the extra 25 seconds in case #1. Has anybody running virtual systems under VMware Player observed a similar shutdown behavior.