Windows slow to restart or shutdown....

Cr00zng

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How Windows 8.1 restarts/shuts down irks me...

W8.1 has the latest updates, sans the W10 malware, is slow to restart/shutdown. Restarting the system takes couple of seconds for "Windows is restarting..." screen to appear, but it takes another 30-40 seconds for that screen to disappear and actually restart the computer.

The shutdown process is even more puzzling for me. Shutting down the system brings up the "Windows is shutting down..." that displayed for couple of seconds. Then the screens go black, the monitors go into power save mode (no video signal received), but the system is still running for 30-40 seconds before the computer is actually shutdown.

The same computer dual boots with W7 that within 5 seconds restarts/shuts down. The dual boot is managed within the BIOS/EUFI "F12" key to select the drive to boot from. Both Windows 8.1 and 7 runs from their own SSD drives without being aware of the other OS.

This is certainly due to the W8.1 and not to the hardware. Both W8.1 and 7 is run just fine performance wise as they should with quad-CPU, SSDs and 16 gig memory.

Anyone has an idea what causes the slow restart/shutdown in W8.1?
TIA...
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Latitude
    CPU
    Intel i5-3350P (3.1 GHz)
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte
    Memory
    16 GBs
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon HD7850
    Sound Card
    Built-in to MB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x 24" Dell
    Screen Resolution
    3,840 x1,200
    Hard Drives
    128 GBs, OCZ Vertex, SATA III SSD
    256 GBs Intel SATA III SSD
    3 x Seagate 1 TBs HDD
    PSU
    Antec 750W
    Case
    Antec P185
    Internet Speed
    50 Gb/s
    Browser
    IE11, Firefox22.0
    Antivirus
    Vipre
    Other Info
    Works, most of the times unless Microsoft patches decide otherwise...
I've suspected Windows telemetry from the beginning to be the reason for the delayed restart /shut down and the suspicion was right. Despite removing all the telemetry patches, disabling all of the monitoring, etc., evidently system files had been "updated" to send the telemetry data anyway, if and when the user signs out, restarts or shuts down the system.

Installed Spybot Anti-Beacon 1.5, designed to disable telemetry in the system and MS Office, immunized my system, the restart is almost instantaneous and so is sign out.

Shutdown still has the delay, albeit the "Shutting down Windows..." screen disappears faster, the about 30 seconds delay to shut off the power is still there after the monitors go standby. It does not make a difference, if I unplug the network cable. It's still takes half a minute to power off and there are no errors in the logs. I just shut off the power on the strip as soon as the monitors go standby; even that does not result in an error message the next time the system is booted. Weird...

Is there a way to record the shutdown process? It does not seem that one could actually monitor the process, especially after the monitors go standby...

Edit: added link to Spybot Anti-Beacon...
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Win 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Latitude
    CPU
    Intel i5-3350P (3.1 GHz)
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte
    Memory
    16 GBs
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon HD7850
    Sound Card
    Built-in to MB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x 24" Dell
    Screen Resolution
    3,840 x1,200
    Hard Drives
    128 GBs, OCZ Vertex, SATA III SSD
    256 GBs Intel SATA III SSD
    3 x Seagate 1 TBs HDD
    PSU
    Antec 750W
    Case
    Antec P185
    Internet Speed
    50 Gb/s
    Browser
    IE11, Firefox22.0
    Antivirus
    Vipre
    Other Info
    Works, most of the times unless Microsoft patches decide otherwise...
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