Windows 10 shutdown very slow

I installed windows 10 one week ago, it was working fine. But yesterday, after an auto update and installing some Modern UI app, my laptop shutdown became very slow, after the screen was turned off during shutdown, it takes about 30 minutes to shutdown completely (lamp off).

I tried to defrag my hard disk and remove some software, but nothing helped. My C partition is 61/80 GB used.

Andiana

Posted 2015-09-15T00:02:09.807

Reputation: 165

install the Windows 10 WPT (part of the Windows 10 SDK: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads/windows-10-sdk) and run the commands shown in this pastebin: http://pastebin.com/RFRkuc81 share the compressed ETL file

– magicandre1981 – 2015-09-15T04:16:13.300

Fortunally, I removed VirtualBox and its shutdown within 10s again. Thanks :) – Andiana – 2015-09-15T06:09:20.000

ok, post your finding as answer and mark it as answer. You should also submit the issue to the virtualbox developers: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker

– magicandre1981 – 2015-09-15T15:46:07.930

After uninstall VirtualBox, sometimes my windows shutdown very slow too. I think it's may because install many new software??? – Andiana – 2015-09-19T09:16:15.347

try to capture a shutdown trace with the WPT that includes the slowness – magicandre1981 – 2015-09-19T18:25:43.213

Answers

There are a lot of factors affecting this. There might be a problem with the battery. If your battery is very old, it may cause issues. Also, there is some effect of disk space. It may further effect your system.

ankit3302

Posted 2015-09-15T00:02:09.807

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It could be you are running low on disk space, this could be exacerbated by a low memory machine.

Try freeing up some disk space and see if the problem continues.

Keltari

Posted 2015-09-15T00:02:09.807

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@kenorb yes, it is a possible answer. – Keltari – 2015-09-15T16:42:12.980

Not sure who marked you down. Good answer - +1 – rmustakos – 2018-10-22T21:15:39.070

If you have experienced slow shutdown in Windows 10, you should know that the OS comes with a built-in ability to speed it up. With a few tweaks, you can significantly speed up the shutdown process. Let's see how it can be done.

When you shutdown your PC, Windows 10 is waiting for a response from running applications and services. Depending on how your running apps respond to the shutdown call or exit, Windows can take lots of time, especially if some service or app does not finish its job and exit quickly. In the Registry, there are a few settings which define the time in seconds for which the OS will wait before it forcibly kills running applications to proceed with the shutdown. You can reduce this timeout so Windows 10 will perform a faster shutdown and restart much faster.

Source: http://winaero.com/blog/speed-up-slow-shutdown-in-windows-10/

Bekzod Buranov

Posted 2015-09-15T00:02:09.807

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Not sure who marked you down. Good answer - +1 – rmustakos – 2018-10-22T21:15:31.797