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trying to debug slow shutdown
I'm trying to debug a slow shutdown on my laptop with an SSD.
I've done the msconfig to so non-microsoft services and other startups do not start at boot but this doesn't make a big difference.
One thing is that although the shutdown takes 2 minutes, and the disk activity light is pinned solid in those 2 minutes, so something is going on, I can't seem to figure out how to get information about what is going on. The big problem is that 7 seconds after the shutdown command, the event log service shuts down. After that point there are no log entries.
Is there a way to configure the event log service so that it doesn't stop right after the shutdown command? If there were log entries this would probably be quick debugging.
Also while I am at it, here are my theories for what is going on (1) the disk is busy in those 2 minutes doing some sort of registry backup, or (2) also running through a journaling file system log to update disk blocks to a consistent state, or (3) or running the search indexer.
What does Windows 7 do to the disks when it is shutting down?