extremely slow shutdown

[mak]

Hi i have windows 7 ultimate, I am now facing some wierd problem from last week when my expansion drive 500gb Seagate is connected computer takes too long time to shutdown. But i don't why my drive to be disconnected during shutdown is there any that i can try to figure out the problem what had exactly happen and Fix the problem.???? Can anyone suggest me I have high Configuration machine 4gb ram and core 2 proceccor everything was normal but from last week it started to annoying.

 

[Kirsch]

Check the processes you have running during your shutdown, do the steps I layed out in this post

 

[whs]

You can try this: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/717-shut-down-speed-up.html?filter

 

[mak]

well it doesn't work for me..????

 

[mak]

no but the thing is why this is happening when this drive connected ...????

 

[whs]

This is a long shot you may try. Go into Services and disable the Windows Driver Foundation.

 

[Helios Latio]

You can use registry mechanic to remove registry error. so your pc will shutdown more faster everytime you shutdown. It has system monitor option. You can see how long the time your pc take to boot startup and shut down.

 

[CarlTR6]

Most of us here do not recommend a registry cleaner unless you are very familiar with the registry and know exactly what you are doing. Win7 manages the registry much differently than XP, and even Vista, and much more efficiently. There are some solid and sound reasons for this advice.

 

[richc46]

Do a clean boot
How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

Then shut down, if it shuts down correctly, you can figure out the slow closing program that causes the problem

Does not work

Boot in safe mode then shut down. If it works, my hunch is a driver.

 

[gregrocker]

Startup or shutdown delays are often logged in the Performance-Diagnostics log at Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Performance Information and Tools\Advanced Tools

 

[windows7theme]

There are several factors that affects your shutdown speed in Windows 7. A few I can think right now are:

1. The most common is if you still have a few programs open then it might take some time as the computer automatically shuts the programs down gradually.

2. Secondly if you have a long/custom windows logoff/shutdown sound then the computer wont shut down until it ends.

3. Thirdly some spyware, virus or malware might be running in the background without your knowledge and that might affect shutdown. I advise you to scan your computer once for malware, adware or spyware by using a checker. I have personally used SuperAntiSpyware free edition and it is not bad either.

4. Lastly as you mentioned you are connecting the external hard drive. So, the computer would also check the external drive like any of your other drives and this might also be extending the shutdown time.

 

[OEM]

You might also depending on how much your writing to this drive, is to turn off write caching on that drive. In some cases information will not write immediately to the drive and then when you shut down/restart any info intended to be written to that drive is then written slowing the shutdown. You can disable write cache via disk management, right click on non os drives and turn off write caching.

Good Luck

 

[Reilly]

they are sometimes delayed by a clunked up drive

 

[nyg]

interested in this problem too

I have a Lenovo X201 and an Intel SSD. Booting Windows 7 is blazingly fast - about 35 seconds! As is everything else on Windows 7 with the SSD. I'll never go back, but that is another thread.

What interests me is that shutting down Windows 7 with the SSD takes about 2 minutes 15 seconds, and that's with no applications started. This is not normal - I've seen virgin non-SSD PC's shut down in 30 seconds. So I'd expect my laptop to be able to shut down in under that with the SSD.

I've experimented with msconfig (as recommended above), turning off starting all non-microsoft services and startups, and the shut down goes to 2 minutes. The Microsoft performance tools (as recommended above) don't report anything out of the ordinary.

I do have boatloads of software on my laptop, so it's probably some driver. I've investigated the event logs around the shutdown but there is little information because the event logging service shuts down 7 seconds after the shutdown command and then nothing is reported. Is there a way to delay the event logger stopping on a shutdown?

An interesting facet of the behavior of the laptop during those 2 minutes of pause is that the disk activity light is pinned lit solid for those two minutes. My current theory is that there's some sort of commit loop going on for some fancy Windows journaling filesystem during that pause. The theory includes posing that during normal operation, the SSD is so fast that Windows file system goes into a logging mode, and gets behind the curve during that period and has to catch up. That theory would be somewhat consistent with the initial post on this thread, where someone observed that Windows 7 shutdowns, with external HD attached, were really slow.

Is there some knob on the file system to have it maintain tighter consistency during normal operation, so that shutdowns are faster? With the SSD, I have plenty of IO bandwidth to burn.

 

[francobollo]

Interesting aside.
I had the same shutdown problems with Win7 and the Seagate Expansion as everyone here. I used the drive to replace a smaller Maxtor that I used for Windows backup.
As soon as I did my first Windows backup to the new SE, shutdown became normal again.
My only thoughts are that even though the drive letter remained the same for both drives, Windows became confused and tried to communicate to the new drive with invalid settings, and not allowing the drive to become inactive.
All is well now.
francobollo