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What really happens when you shutdown Windows?

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About a year or so ago, I wrote a post that talked about the Windows shutdown experience.

 

A couple of the people reading the post asked for more details, and it turns out that the performance folks have just issued this paper which describes (in great detail) what happens during system boot and shutdown.

 

I skimmed over it before posting and thought it was pretty cool.

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  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2008
    PingBack from http://www.simplynetdev.com/what-really-happens-when-you-shutdown-windows/

  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2008
    I have a Vista boot question to which I can't seem to find the answer: Why is the startup sound not querying the volume settings before it plays? I tend to keep my volume at about 50% in order to adjust the level easily either direction. Unfortunately, on reboot, that means a VERY LOUD startup sound.

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2008
    Joey: The startup sound plays using the hardware volume - it doesn't have it's own volume control.   Are you running Vista SP1?  I fixed a couple of bugs related to volume persistance that might account for your issue.

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2008
    It's absolutely ridiculous that I can't view the document as simple html in my web browser. It's 2008, Microsoft, get a clue.

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    October 11, 2008
    I'm in the same boat as the other guys, I stuck the thing on a USB key and will read it the next time I find a machine with office on it

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2008
    Thanks Larry. Yeah, I'm on SP1, and I did notice the sound fixes ;) Your comment obviously accounts for what I'm experiencing, so thanks for that. On the plus side, I only ever restart Vista for service pack updates, so I don't have to deal with it that often. I love your blog, by the way. I found it when I was looking for the "unknown device" for Vista and I've been reading with fervor. Love the article about the Win7 engineering process. Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing!