X60 plus slow shutdown in Vista?

Has anyone else with an X60 plus noticed that shutdown takes much longer than it should. I've had a good trawl on the internet but turned up nothing interesting about Vista in general. Looking at the windows event logs, there is a missing 70 seconds or so after the last shutdown event and the next startup event.

The last system event before the computer really shut down was:

'The system time has changed to 30/05/2007 21:50:26 from 30/05/2007 21:50:26.'

I power the machine on immediately it turns off and this is the next event:

'Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 6.00. 6000 Multiprocessor Free.' @ 22:52.07

So there is a missing minute at the least, the machine is still on with that blue/green shutdown screen and nothing going on. Anyone else spotted this, or know what's going on?

Dave

 

i'm not a X60 plus user... but just in general... which Vista do you use btw? Home Premium/Business/Ultimate or maybe Home Basic?

just wondering... cause maybe the problem not only on X60 Plus...

 

I haven't yet tried Vista on the X60 plus, but on XP I always get a message box about network connections when I shut down. I haven't yet tracked down the offending software. I can manually kill it or Windows has a timeout before it will kill it.

Windows has a registry entry for the timeout period.

More here and here (this gives a good explanation).

John

 

Try going to the task manager before shutting down and closing all running programms. Then shut down. If it is still slow then it is a Windows problem and probably is some driver that doesnt want to quit. If it is fast when its one of the programms you closed before doing it.

 

this is something unrelated to programs running, more to do I suspect with something the OS is trying to do with hardware. The problem I'm getting with the long delay is way after all services and applications have ended. The last log event I can see is:

The Event log service was stopped.

Which of course means I don't see any more events after that! so whatever is causing the delay, it isn't getting logged!

 

Just a guess: there is a security setting in the policy that can make Vista & XP physically clean the whole pagefile beforeshutdown. If your pagefile is over 1GB this can be quite time consuming. A good sign of this happening is a constantly turned on HDD led.

 

aha, good thinking, Ill check