How do I view windows shut down procedures?

[usalabs3]

There is a problem with windows either shutting down or re-starting, I have 2 firewalls, (hardware and software), a proxy server, spyware/adware monitoring, antivirus (recently updated the signatures), popup blocker and a process guard running.

The antivirus and spyware/adware scanning shows no viruses, worms, trojans, or spyware/adware on the machine, but windows still takes about 15 minutes to completely shut down.

The process from 'Saving Settings, to 'Windows is shutting down' takes a few seconds, but from the 'Windows is shutting down' screen it takes about 15 minutes from that point to completely shut down or restart.

Is there a way that I can view the shutting down process?, much like Linux shows each process being shut down, then I can see what program/process windows is waiting on to complete the shut down and do aomething about it.

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308029

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm

 

[rvnguy]

usalabs3,

You could try enabling "Event Logging", as you state it eventually shuts down all events should get logged.

I would read bcastner's links first as the event logger will be very cryptive with many codes etc.

How to reset & use the event logger

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...proddocs/en-us/hc_settings_reset_message.mspx

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[usalabs3]

Bcastners 3 links do not have anything in there to show how I can view the shutdown procedures, they all relate to some hardware or software issue, until I can actually SEE the shutting down procedures in action, line by line, then I can't sort out why it's not shutting down the way it should.

Example of a few lines in Linux shutdown, as seen during a shutdown:-

Sending blah blah blah the Term signal...............Done
Sending " " " " Kill signal...............Done
Killing Process blah blah blah.......................Done

If windows can do that (not exactly word for word, but something like it), then I can see what process or program is making windows wait for the timout then continuing the shut down.