Windows 10 hanging on shutdown, can't locate the issue.

Hello everyone,

For the past few days Windows 10 has been hanging at shutdown. The symptoms are as follows: When shutting down the computer, it'll make it past the shutdown screen, my monitor will turn off and display "No Signal" which is normal, although the computer will remain on anywhere from two minutes to five minutes.

This is completely random from what I can tell. Sometimes after the monitor shuts off the computer will also follow a couple of seconds later and sometimes it won't.

I've taken a look at event viewer and the only things I can see in regards in startup/shutdown are the following:

"The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention. Scenario : Video memory resources are over-utilized and there is thrashing happening as a result. Reducing number of running programs and open windows may help resolve this condition."

"This service caused a delay in the system shutdown process:
File Name : EventLog
Friendly Name :
Version :
Total Time : 1691ms
Degradation Time : 933ms
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2016‎-‎03‎-‎03T07:30:08.061894600Z"

There are a few other errors although most are just relating to process taking a long time to start up and indications that the system booted. All other times the system has taken a very long while to shut down the above error and only the above error was displayed in event viewer, always pointing to EventLog.

Here are my specs. :)

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 4790S @ 3.20GHz 30 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. K30AD_M31AD_M51AD_M32AD (SOCKET 1150) 28 °C
Graphics
NS-32L450A11 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (EVGA) 33 °C
Storage
1863GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 (SATA) 37 °C
Optical Drives
ASUS SH-224DB
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
Audio
Logitech G430 Gaming Headset


I've attached a Speccy text export below. If I can provide any other additional information please don't hesitate to ask and thank you for taking the time to read this post and assist me with the issue.

dalchina said:

Hi, does this happen in particular if you have Chrome completely shut down before you shut down the PC?

And does this happen if you clean boot, then try shut down?

Hi Dalchina,

Thank you for taking the time to post. I'll go ahead and see if the issue persists while Chrome is closed down and with a clean boot. I'll report back after.

It's odd because this problem only recently started with zero changes to anyway software/hardware.

windows shutdown issue

Easy301 said:

Hello everyone,

For the past few days Windows 10 has been hanging at shutdown. The symptoms are as follows: When shutting down the computer, it'll make it past the shutdown screen, my monitor will turn off and display "No Signal" which is normal, although the computer will remain on anywhere from two minutes to five minutes.

This is completely random from what I can tell. Sometimes after the monitor shuts off the computer will also follow a couple of seconds later and sometimes it won't.

I've taken a look at event viewer and the only things I can see in regards in startup/shutdown are the following:

"The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention. Scenario : Video memory resources are over-utilized and there is thrashing happening as a result. Reducing number of running programs and open windows may help resolve this condition."

"This service caused a delay in the system shutdown process:
File Name : EventLog
Friendly Name :
Version :
Total Time : 1691ms
Degradation Time : 933ms
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2016‎-‎03‎-‎03T07:30:08.061894600Z"

There are a few other errors although most are just relating to process taking a long time to start up and indications that the system booted. All other times the system has taken a very long while to shut down the above error and only the above error was displayed in event viewer, always pointing to EventLog.

Here are my specs. :)

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 4790S @ 3.20GHz 30 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. K30AD_M31AD_M51AD_M32AD (SOCKET 1150) 28 °C
Graphics
NS-32L450A11 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (EVGA) 33 °C
Storage
1863GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 (SATA) 37 °C
Optical Drives
ASUS SH-224DB
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
Audio
Logitech G430 Gaming Headset


I've attached a Speccy text export below. If I can provide any other additional information please don't hesitate to ask and thank you for taking the time to read this post and assist me with the issue.

ive had the same issues in the past after windows 10 updates what I do is shut off comp unplug power cord push power button back on then replug power cord back in then rebot then the problem goes away windows will shut down normally

Easy301 said:

Hello everyone,

For the past few days Windows 10 has been hanging at shutdown. The symptoms are as follows: When shutting down the computer, it'll make it past the shutdown screen, my monitor will turn off and display "No Signal" which is normal, although the computer will remain on anywhere from two minutes to five minutes.

This is completely random from what I can tell. Sometimes after the monitor shuts off the computer will also follow a couple of seconds later and sometimes it won't.

I've taken a look at event viewer and the only things I can see in regards in startup/shutdown are the following:

"The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention. Scenario : Video memory resources are over-utilized and there is thrashing happening as a result. Reducing number of running programs and open windows may help resolve this condition."

"This service caused a delay in the system shutdown process:
File Name : EventLog
Friendly Name :
Version :
Total Time : 1691ms
Degradation Time : 933ms
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2016‎-‎03‎-‎03T07:30:08.061894600Z"

There are a few other errors although most are just relating to process taking a long time to start up and indications that the system booted. All other times the system has taken a very long while to shut down the above error and only the above error was displayed in event viewer, always pointing to EventLog.

Here are my specs. :)

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 4790S @ 3.20GHz 30 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. K30AD_M31AD_M51AD_M32AD (SOCKET 1150) 28 °C
Graphics
NS-32L450A11 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (EVGA) 33 °C
Storage
1863GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 (SATA) 37 °C
Optical Drives
ASUS SH-224DB
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
Audio
Logitech G430 Gaming Headset


I've attached a Speccy text export below. If I can provide any other additional information please don't hesitate to ask and thank you for taking the time to read this post and assist me with the issue.

Just a thought. Do you have "fast startup" turned on in power options? I had shut down hanging issues before and turning that off solved it.

Thanks everyone for the help. The issue still persists with Chrome shutdown and "Continue running background apps" unchecked. I have not seen the issue with a clean boot but again, it's very hard to actually reproduce the issue so it's hard to tell if that helped isolate the issue or if it just has not shown up the two times I've tried shutting down from a clean bot.

While the long shutdown can be annoying it's certainty nothing I can't live with if I have to. With that said, I'd like to rule out two major issues though before just living with the sometimes long shutdown time.

My two major concerns are 1. Is this actually hurting my computer? I'd like to consider myself a pretty advanced computer user and while I don't see any harm that can come from a long shutdown (Windows is doing what it needs to do.) I just wanted to be sure. 2. Can this be indicative of any type of incoming hardware issue/failure? HDD sentinel reports my HDD in perfect condition and hardware monitoring so far reports all temps and such in normal ranges.

Edit: Yes, I do currently have Fast Boot Enabled for my OS.

Thank you everyone again for taking the time to assist me.