Show debug log on shutdown

[xwb]

Is there a way of showing what windows is doing when it is shutting down?

The work routine is as follows
o startup - 1 min
o login - 2 min
o startup a vm - 1 min
o work in the VM all day
o suspend the VM - 1 min
o shutdown - 5 to 10 min

As I haven't done anything except play with a VM, I can't understand why a shutdown takes that long. I don't even browse the internet. If I don't use the VM, just login and shutdown, it takes 1-2 minutes to shutdown.

I'd just like to know what it is doing when it takes 10 minutes to shutdown. Maybe it is a process taking a long time to terminate or a device I do not use. Is there any way of seeing what is happening?

 

[DrB0b]

If I was you, the first thing I would do is power on, log in, open Task Manager and see what is all running, shutdown, and record time to shutdown. Power on, log in, run VM for 10 min and close out of VM, open Task Manager and see what process are still active. Maybe your VM is eating up alot of RAM its not releasing causing the system to hang longer than it should.

Something easy to check and do and might give you some insight. Im sure others will have a better idea for attack.

What VM are you using, WMware, Virtual Box,....?

"Silence is golden, duct tape is silver...

 

[xwb]

VMWare player.

I've done that - if the VM is on for up to 3 hours, the shutdown is pretty quick. When it is 7-8 hours, it is really slow. I haven't tried anything in between yet. Thing is the number of processes is the same and their memory usage is more or less the same. Logging off is quick. It is just shutting down after logging off which is really slow.

Problem is the base machine is XP home so I can't even switch on verbose on gpedit.msc. Not sure how much difference that would make.

I'll try 5, 6, 7 and 8 hours over next week and report back.

 

[BadBigBen]

maybe this would be of value to you also:

Make Windows XP Shut Down Faster

http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2009/03/12/make-windows-xp-shut-down-faster/

How To Fix Slow Logoff And Long Shutdown Times In Windows XP

http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-fix-long-shutdown-times-in-windows-xp.html

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