Laptop takes 5 minutes to shut down
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March 5, 2026
Need some help here. I have a new laptop, about 3 months old, Lenovo P16S with Ryzen HX Pro 370, Radeon 890M, 64GB RAM running Win 11 Pro 25H2. I can't say for certain when this started but this laptop literally takes 5 minutes to shut down and even longer to restart. It is connected to a Dell TB dock and when I first noticed it I really thought it had something to do with being connected to the dock, some kind of Lenovo-Dell beef. But it also happens when not connected to the dock or even when connected to a different cheap USB dock I use when in the office occasionally.
My searches showed things like:
Disabling fast boot. I've tried both ways, no change.
Disabling all non-Windows services and disabling startups apps. No change.
Update drivers, no change.
Update Windows, already up to date, no change.
So the problem doesn't seem to be related to software I loaded. I guess it still could be hardware related if the drivers are being loaded?
When I shutdown/restart I get the usual...
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