Thanks, Zardoc. It's worth bearing this in mind if you are experiencing overly long shutdowns. The main reason for this option is to remove any trace of activity from the drive if you are dealing with classified/confidential information (as is the case with some businesses). However, the bigger the paging file the longer this takes. For most people, and virtually all home users, there is no need for the paging file to be erased on shutdown.
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Hi all
just to add my .02EUR worth
in addition to the advice given above you should also see what system services are running -- for example if you have ACRONIS / ADOBE etc.
These will have background services running all the time whether these programs are active or not. Some of these programs initiate system services automatically which all add to the shutdown time when you are closing windows down.
Many of these only need to start when you launch the application.
Other things like data streaming servers, itunes etc etc might also have long running services that take a long time to stop.
Cheers
jimbo
jimbo45,
yes indeed I have acronis true image home 2010 and photoshop cs4 running
I had this problem and and tried various solutions without success. The only thing that worked for me was to unistall/reinstall graphics card drivers.
Dwarf - I have been messing about with one thing and another to try to prevent UNBELIEVABLY long shutdown. I just used to walk away and leave it, which was annoying when it was just a reboot needed. The tweak on WaitFor.. from 1000 to 20000 was useless, as this is just a question of a few seconds.
As soon as I saw your reference to clearing VM, I knew it had to be right as I have 12GB of memory and clearing VM was going to take ages. Switched it off as you showed, and now my computer reboots withing 2 minutes. Thanks a bunch.:)
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