I'm running an HP dv7-1270us laptop with Vista 64. The last several
weeks I've been experiencing very slow (up to 4 minutes) shutdown times.
I went into the event log files and am going to paste the last two
shutdown event logs below. It would appear that something is causing
the "shutdownkerneltime" is lagging as the bulk of the shutdown sequence
builds up there (81627ms out of the total 89918:

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 2/18/2010 6:46:09 AM
Event ID: 200
Task Category: Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Level: Error
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Frjoemack-PC
Description:
Windows has shutdown:
Shutdown Duration : 89918ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 2/18/2010 1:47:17 AM
Event Xml:
Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"
System
Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance"
Guid="{cfc18ec0-96b1-4eba-961b-622caee05b0a}" /
EventID200/EventID
Version1/Version
Level2/Level
Task4007/Task
Opcode40/Opcode
Keywords0x8000000000010000/Keywords
TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-02-18T11:46:09.372Z" /
EventRecordID3844/EventRecordID
Correlation ActivityID="{00000001-0000-0000-9B70-5F538FB0CA01}" /
Execution ProcessID="2036" ThreadID="2600" /

ChannelMicrosoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational/Channel
ComputerFrjoemack-PC/Computer
Security UserID="S-1-5-19" /
/System
EventData
Data Name="ShutdownTsVersion"1/Data
Data Name="ShutdownStartTime"2010-02-18T01:47:17.858Z/Data
Data Name="ShutdownEndTime"2010-02-18T01:48:47.777Z/Data
Data Name="ShutdownTime"89918/Data
Data Name="ShutdownUserSessionTime"5182/Data
Data Name="ShutdownUserPolicyTime"10/Data
Data Name="ShutdownUserProfilesTime"1054/Data
Data Name="ShutdownSystemSessionsTime"3108/Data
Data Name="ShutdownPreShutdownNotificationsTime"219/Data
Data Name="ShutdownServicesTime"2705/Data
Data Name="ShutdownKernelTime"81627/Data
Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseStepImprovementBits"0/Data
Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseGradualImprovementBits"0/Data
Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseStepDegradationBits"0/Data
Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseGradualDegradationBits"0/Data
Data Name="ShutdownIsDegradation"false/Data
Data Name="ShutdownTimeChange"0/Data
/EventData
/Event

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 2/17/2010 10:09:28 AM
Event ID: 200
Task Category: Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Level: Error
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Frjoemack-PC
Description:
Windows has shutdown:
Shutdown Duration : 90191ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 2/17/2010 3:05:00 PM
Event Xml:
Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"
System
Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance"
Guid="{cfc18ec0-96b1-4eba-961b-622caee05b0a}" /
EventID200/EventID
Version1/Version
Level2/Level
Task4007/Task
Opcode40/Opcode
Keywords0x8000000000010000/Keywords
TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-02-17T15:09:28.571Z" /
EventRecordID3838/EventRecordID
Correlation ActivityID="{00000001-0000-0000-3E28-C68DE2AFCA01}" /
Execution ProcessID="1920" ThreadID="2008" /

ChannelMicrosoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational/Channel
ComputerFrjoemack-PC/Computer
Security UserID="S-1-5-19" /
/System
EventData
Data Name="ShutdownTsVersion"1/Data
Data Name="ShutdownStartTime"2010-02-17T15:05:00.301Z/Data
Data Name="ShutdownEndTime"2010-02-17T15:06:30.493Z/Data
Data Name="ShutdownTime"90191/Data
Data Name="ShutdownUserSessionTime"4683/Data
Data Name="ShutdownUserPolicyTime"2/Data
Data Name="ShutdownUserProfilesTime"909/Data
Data Name="ShutdownSystemSessionsTime"3317/Data
Data Name="ShutdownPreShutdownNotificationsTime"212/Data
Data Name="ShutdownServicesTime"2778/Data
Data Name="ShutdownKernelTime"82190/Data
Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseStepImprovementBits"24/Data
Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseGradualImprovementBits"8/Data
Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseStepDegradationBits"0/Data
Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseGradualDegradationBits"0/Data
Data Name="ShutdownIsDegradation"false/Data
Data Name="ShutdownTimeChange"0/Data
/EventData
/Event


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JoeMack