Not sure if this is the right place for this - mods, feel free to move.
In the past week, Windows 7 is taking ages to shut down (as in it doesn't - I have to reset the machine) once it's been on for a while. It gets to "shutting down" and just hangs there forever. There's no disk activity during this.
Steps I've taken:
1. Disable all processes I don't recognize/don't need,
2. Enable "verbose messages" during startup and shutdown (and since it freezes on "shutting down", I'm convinced it's a Windows process, and not an application)
3. Made sure the paging file wipe option is OFF
4. Checked the event logs - nothing unusual is showing up, no "X took unusally long" under the 200-series messages.
5. Run an xperf trace - again, nothing unusual is showing up
6. Removed all Windows updates installed since the problem started.
Any ideas what else I can try? I'm considering replacing my (mechanical) storage drive next!
M.
In the past week, Windows 7 is taking ages to shut down (as in it doesn't - I have to reset the machine) once it's been on for a while. It gets to "shutting down" and just hangs there forever. There's no disk activity during this.
Steps I've taken:
1. Disable all processes I don't recognize/don't need,
2. Enable "verbose messages" during startup and shutdown (and since it freezes on "shutting down", I'm convinced it's a Windows process, and not an application)
3. Made sure the paging file wipe option is OFF
4. Checked the event logs - nothing unusual is showing up, no "X took unusally long" under the 200-series messages.
5. Run an xperf trace - again, nothing unusual is showing up
6. Removed all Windows updates installed since the problem started.
Any ideas what else I can try? I'm considering replacing my (mechanical) storage drive next!
M.
