Slow Boot and Shutdown in Win7

[magicroundabout]

i'm having errors with boot times and shut down times.

Shuting down win7 takes an age as does a restart. unsure what is causing it but here is an error report from my event viewer. can anyone make head or tail of this and maybe offer a resolution

Boot Report
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 28/11/2009 07:57:47
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Warning
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: HOME-PC
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 30904ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2009‎-‎11‎-‎28T07:55:58.578000200Z
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}" />
<EventID>100</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>4002</Task>
<Opcode>34</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-11-28T07:57:47.630790200Z" />
<EventRecordID>249</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{00000100-0000-0002-28AD-9F380070CA01}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1652" ThreadID="2916" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>HOME-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data>
<Data Name="BootStartTime">2009-11-28T07:55:58.578000200Z</Data>
<Data Name="BootEndTime">2009-11-28T07:57:45.228386000Z</Data>
<Data Name="SystemBootInstance">122</Data>
<Data Name="UserBootInstance">107</Data>
<Data Name="BootTime">30904</Data>
<Data Name="MainPathBootTime">15504</Data>
<Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">13</Data>
<Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">426</Data>
<Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">3265</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">9724</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">407707648</Data>
<Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">4739</Data>
<Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">2777</Data>
<Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">337</Data>
<Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">2376</Data>
<Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">2696</Data>
<Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">14</Data>
<Data Name="BootPostBootTime">15400</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsRebootAfterInstall">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsStepDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsGradualDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootImprovementDelta">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootDegradationDelta">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsRootCauseIdentified">false</Data>
<Data Name="OSLoaderDuration">725</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitStartTimeMS">13</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitDuration">3337</Data>
<Data Name="OtherKernelInitDuration">930</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS">4266</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitDuration">354</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitStartTimeMS">4622</Data>
<Data Name="Session0InitDuration">2800</Data>
<Data Name="Session1InitDuration">314</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitOtherDuration">1624</Data>
<Data Name="WinLogonStartTimeMS">9361</Data>
<Data Name="OtherLogonInitActivityDuration">733</Data>
<Data Name="UserLogonWaitDuration">3622</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Shutdown Report
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 28/11/2009 07:57:47
Event ID: 200
Task Category: Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Level: Warning
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: HOME-PC
Description:
Windows has shutdown:
Shutdown Duration : 38994ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2009‎-‎11‎-‎28T00:44:20.822768300Z
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}" />
<EventID>200</EventID>
<Version>1</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>4007</Task>
<Opcode>40</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-11-28T07:57:47.396789800Z" />
<EventRecordID>248</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{00000100-0000-0006-25AD-9F380070CA01}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1652" ThreadID="1748" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>HOME-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="ShutdownTsVersion">1</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownStartTime">2009-11-28T00:44:20.822768300Z</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownEndTime">2009-11-28T00:44:59.817150300Z</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownTime">38994</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownUserSessionTime">3254</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownUserPolicyTime">49</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownUserProfilesTime">97</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownSystemSessionsTime">3983</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownPreShutdownNotificationsTime">648</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownServicesTime">3258</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownKernelTime">31756</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>

 

[namnoc]

First thing to try sounds stupid, but have you got a picture or solid colour as your background? If it is a solid colour there is a known bug that makes startup up to 20 seconds longer. Swap to a picture and retest.