Windows not shutting down, caused by Event Error 5858 ? (WMI Activity)

Regularly my pc does not shut down, it gets stuck on the blue screen with "Shutting Down"
After a while I need to shut down the pc, using the power-button on the case.

I already untagged "Turn on fast start-up (recommended)"
under Control Panel->All Control Panel Items->Power Options->System Settings under 'Shut-down settings"

Regretfully that did not solve the issue.

I checked the event log between me initiating shutdown (event 1074) and rebooting.

There are quite a number of entries reading like this:

Event : 5858
Source : Microsoft-Windows-WMI-Activity
Description:
Id = {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}; ClientMachine = DESKTOP-JFFLEA5; User = NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM; ClientProcessId = 2908; Component = Unknown; Operation = Start IWbemServices::ExecQuery - root\wmi : select * from WDMClassesOfDriver where ClassName = "MSStorageDriver_ClassErrorLogEntry"; ResultCode = 80041032; PossibleCause Unknown
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Event : 5858
Source : Microsoft-Windows-WMI-Activity
Description:
Id = {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}; ClientMachine = DESKTOP-JFFLEA5; User = NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM; ClientProcessId = 2908; Component = Unknown; Operation = Start IWbemServices::ExecQuery - root\wmi : select * from WMIBinaryMofResource where Name = "USBSTOR\\Disk&Ven_WD&Prod_My_Book_1230&Rev_1065\\57583231443934374E345956&0_0-{05901221-D566-11d1-B2F0-00A0C9062910}"; ResultCode = 80041032; PossibleCause = Unknown
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Note that I did have external drives running, but they were properly removed (ejected) and then, before shutting down, they were switched/powered off, i.e. they didn't exist anymore for Windows.

Does anybody out there know how to handle this and what is causing this error?
Any solutions?

Thanks!

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