Vista extremely long shutdown and startup troubleshooting needed!

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> Issue 1)
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> It can take up to 10 minutes shutting down and restarting vista.
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> I am at a loss since i dont see anything usable in performance logs, just
> things like "task xyz took longer than expected". But i know that already.
> I need a good troubleshooting methology WHAT takes so long to shutdown my
> vista.
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> Issue 2)
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> Long STARTUP.
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> I have an idea it *might* have to with my network, when another PC is down
> it might be the case that Vista tries to connect to the other PC and waits
> and waits and waits
> While its starting up, everything else is locked up and i have to wait
> some minutes for Vista to load.
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> I had a similar issue on an old XP box, in this case it was the
> "Workstation" (or Server???) service. So i wrote a script to start those
> delayed which saved my problems.
> But now in Vista, even with the new options "Auto (Delayed Start)" i can't
> set this since it comes up with an error message.
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> The network issue is my guess...but i could also be wrong. Again, i need a
> good method of startup-troubleshooting.
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> Thanks!
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> G.
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