Parallels 13.3.3 and Win 10 Pro - VERY slow shutdown

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Sealoozie

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About a month ago, after a Widows update, it takes Windows well over a minute to shut down.
Can anyone provide any tips to try?
Thanks,
Dan
 
Thank you AJ! I have successfully reinstalled the toolbox, but the long Windows shutdown persists. I put a stopwatch on it and it takes 1 minute 56 seconds, FYI.
Anything else to try?
Sea Loozie
 
Sealoozie said:
Thank you AJ! I have successfully reinstalled the toolbox, but the long Windows shutdown persists. I put a stopwatch on it and it takes 1 minute 56 seconds, FYI.
Anything else to try?
Sea Loozie
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Parallels Toolbox is different and Parallels Tools is different, kindly start the virtual machine and go to the top menu bar, click on Actions--> Reinstall Parallels Tools. May I also know how much RAM memory allocated to the Windows virtual machine?
 
Re: TOOLS: My error, AJ. I have now installed TOOLS.
Re: RAM: I have 4GB allocated
My problem remains unchanged. What's next?
Sea Loozie
 
Hi @Sealoozie, we would request you to take a Snapshot and to see how your virtual machine performs on shutting down with fast startup enabled, you can enable it in just a few steps:

1. Start the Windows 10 virtual machine and right-click the Start button.
2. Click Search.
3. Type Control Panel and hit Enter on your keyboard.
4. Click Power Options.
5. Click Choose what the power buttons do.
6. Click Change settings that are currently unavailable.
7. Click Turn on fast startup (recommended).
8. Click Save changes.
If you want to disable fast startup at any point, simply repeat the steps so a checkmark appears next to Turn off fast startup.
 
Hi Paul:
Thanks for the "step by step" instructions - very much appreciated for this novice!
Went through the steps and found "Turn on Fast Startup" was already checked. Not sure what screen shot you needed?
Sea Loozie
 
Sealoozie said:
Hi Paul:
Thanks for the "step by step" instructions - very much appreciated for this novice!
Went through the steps and found "Turn on Fast Startup" was already checked. Not sure what screen shot you needed?
Sea Loozie
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Hi @Sealoozie, Snapshots is a saved state. Please make launching the Windows virtual machine faster some services were disabled:
in Windows CMD+R > msconfig > services > checked the checkbox Hide Microsoft services
 
PaulChris@Parallels said:
Hi @Sealoozie, we would request you to take a Snapshot and to see how your virtual machine performs on shutting down with fast startup enabled, you can enable it in just a few steps:

1. Start the Windows 10 virtual machine and right-click the Start button.
2. Click Search.
3. Type Control Panel and hit Enter on your keyboard.
4. Click Power Options.
5. Click Choose what the power buttons do.
6. Click Change settings that are currently unavailable.
7. Click Turn on fast startup (recommended).
8. Click Save changes.
If you want to disable fast startup at any point, simply repeat the steps so a checkmark appears next to Turn off fast startup.
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In my case, turn off fast startup solved the shutdown problem. As well the command "shutdown -s -f -t 00"
 
Finally, at least in my case, the solution became;
  1. Uninstall Parallels 14
  2. Reinstall parallels 14
  3. Accept Parallels offer to reinstall Windows 10.
  4. Reinstall all my Win Apps
All told the process took about 15 hours of screen time, but the problem was solved.
 
Same problem, different way? My shut down issue came with the change from Win 10 1703 to 1709, and so I think about the hyberfil.sys.
 
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