Slow Windows 8 Shutdown

[mneil 0]

I found this thread hxxp://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=343237&goto=nextoldest which looks like it's shutdown. I'm experiencing this exact issue. I bought my Windows 8 computer 10 months ago and after loading everything on it I noticed it would take up to 10 minutes to shut down. I thought it was because of the super slow HDD it had in it. But, just this afternoon I installed a new SSD. Fresh Windows 8 install with nothing but Nod32 installed and my shutdown times went from 4-5 seconds to several minutes.

 

Needless to say I was very disappointed. So I googled it and couldn't find an answer except on that forum link above. I disabled HIPS and real-time protection and it resolved the issue. But, that's rendering Nod32 practically useless. I just renewed my license for 2 years no knowing that Nod32 was the culprit. Hopefully there is something else I can try? I have already updated all of my drivers; which was another suggestion on that post.

 

Please help!

[TGW 15]

Let's try to narrow it a little bit more, enable real-time protection and keep HIPS disabled, then try to shut down, if you experience a slow shutdown, enable HIPS then restart the computer, and once you're logged in again, disable real-time protection and try to shutdown, and post back your findings.

This and what Marcos suggested in the Wilders thread you linked to isn't intended as a permanent solution, but rather an attempt to diagnose the issue.

[Marcos 5,453]

Do you have ESET NOD32 Antivirus 7.0.302 installed?

[mneil 0]

7.0.302 is installed. Also, I did try disabling one, and then the other, independently. If either one is running it slows the shutdown process significantly. Only when I disable both does the shutdown issue resolve itself. 

[mneil 0]

After replying this this morning I updated to Windows 8.1 just to see if that would resolve anything. And, it seems that it did. I've shutdown, then turned on, the computer a dozen times just testing to see how quickly it shuts down. The shutdown is still longer than without Nod32 but it's now down to a pretty acceptable 15 seconds. Just in case anyone else stumbles on this the issue did not effect restart speeds. I will mark this as resolved a little later if this continues to work.

[Marcos 5,453]

Just to make sure, a computer restart is required for HIPS to get disabled which I assume you did.

[Super_Spartan 56]

Me too, and my computer feels sluggish

 

This is a clean Windows 8.1 Final x64 installation BTW this is very weird the Beta never had these slowdowns

Edited October 18, 2013 by Tweak Arena

[mneil 0]

My issue with the slow shutdown actually went away after updating to 8.1 this morning.

 

And yes, I was aware of the restart to disable HIPS. I went through the shutdown/turn on process well over a dozen times trying different settings with Nod32 and testing each several times just to be sure.

[conan 0]

After suffering for the last 2 to 3 months with longer and longer slowdowns with my current version of EIS7, I finally got around to looking up an answer on the web.  After reading the above info, I also shut down HIPS and rebooted 2x.  After doing so, my long shut down time (sometimes up to 5 minutes) has gone away and I am back to the normal 15 seconds or so.  I had my HIPS in the interactive mode, and have not tried it in the auto mode to see if the long shutdown continued. 

[SweX 871]

It's worth a try to set the HIPS in the default mode to see if it comes back or not.

Edited December 19, 2013 by SweX