The long shutdown delay is not related to my previous disk problem... Here's what was recently logged by the OS system log. Unfortunately, Avast logging wasn't enabled at the time. The problem doesn't show up at 100% of the shutdowns, but has been going on for a while:
Error 4/22/2023 1:15:10 PM Service Control Manager 7043 None <-- (details from this event shown below)
Error 4/22/2023 12:09:21 AM Service Control Manager 7043 None
Error 4/20/2023 11:22:53 AM Service Control Manager 7043 None
Error 4/20/2023 12:17:48 AM Service Control Manager 7043 None
Error 4/18/2023 11:30:50 PM Service Control Manager 7043 None
Error 4/15/2023 11:52:38 PM Service Control Manager 7043 None
Error 4/13/2023 11:39:02 PM Service Control Manager 7043 None
Error 1/12/2023 12:16:55 PM Service Control Manager 7043 None <-- first occurrence
[log data valid back to 11/25/2022]
Log entry:
"The Avast Antivirus service did not shut down properly after receiving a preshutdown control."
- <Event xmlns="
http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">7043</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2023-04-22T20:15:10.052152100Z" />
<EventRecordID>1550788</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="868" ThreadID="8044" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Spock</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="param1">Avast Antivirus</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
All this from a W7-64 Pro (with all ESU updates) system log.
