Windows 10: Optical drive letter shows as active task during shutdown/restart

**Hairy Scot** · 12 May 2017

When I shutdown or restart I get the pop-up about a task preventing shutdown but afaik there are no tasks active.
What is even more puzzling is that the task name shown is "G" which just happens to be the drive letter of my DVD R/W
Any ideas?

Update: I changed DVD R/W drive letter to "Z". But task shown at shutdown/restart still "G" so problem is probably not related to the drive.

**WOT** · 13 May 2017

Hi Hairy Scott,

Don't know if this could be an exact match for your issue but this person disabled utorrent from the startup menu and their problem disappeared;

https://superuser.com/questions/1200...own-or-restart

Hope this helps,

WOT

**Hairy Scot** · 13 May 2017

WOT said:

Hi Hairy Scott,

Don't know if this could be an exact match for your issue but this person disabled utorrent from the startup menu and their problem disappeared;

https://superuser.com/questions/1200...own-or-restart

Hope this helps,

WOT

Thanks WOT.
I just logged in to update this thread after finding that disabling a number of auto-starts removed the issue.
Utorrent was among them.

Windows 10: Optical drive letter shows as active task during shutdown/restart

Optical drive letter shows as active task during shutdown/restart

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