I am having very slow shut down issues on not just one but two brand new laptops that I am convinced are related to the installation of Visual Studio 2013 Desktop and Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate.
Laptop 1: I purchase a brand new Lenovo Y50 laptop with Win8.1, i7, 8GB ram 1TB hybrid drive two weeks ago. After the initial setup and doing all my windows updates I installed Office 365 did more windows updates until none were available. I was very happy with the sub 20 second start-up/boot and sub 15 second shut down. Then I installed Java, Visual Studio 2013 Desktop (a few days later VS 2012 Ultimate), Steam, DayZ. Updated DirectX, and video drivers. It wasn't actually until the next day that I noticed that the shut down took a very long time. Start-up took only a few seconds longer but shutdown took around 1 minute and 40 seconds!!!! This is on a brand new clean system almost from day two. It NEVER occurred to me that Visual Studio could be causing the slowdown. I thought it was a hardware issue that manifest itself after a few hours of burn-in and not having hours and hours of time because of (work and school) to figure out why this this is so slow to shut down I exchanged it yesterday for a brand new Y50.
Laptop 2: AGAIN after doing the initial setup and installing all the windows updates I was once again very happy that this machine. As with the first one, I was very happy with the sub 20 second start-up and sub 15 second shut down due to the hybrid drive. This time I only installed Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate and update 2 (need that version for school). I restarted the system and immediately I noticed that I went from sub 15 second shutdown to around 1 minute and 40 seconds again. I have booted the computer and shut it down several times to the Start screen and even if I shut it down without having launched any programs it takes 1:40 min to shut down.
I am convinced that it is Visual Studio that is causing the very slow shut down. I have not uninstalled or done a system restore in hopes that a expert could have me troubleshoot this on my machine to try and figure out why VS is causing the slow shutdown issue.
Please help and thank you...
Tom