What's Vista SP2 Doing Currently During Shutting Down?

[Guest Leon_Amirreza]

Hi, Can I assume these during a normal Vista Shut down?

When the user issues shut down:

1- windows sends shut down message to all desktop processes!

2- programms need not much to do close fast and windows can continue with

shut down!

3- a not responding dialog may appear for programms that need to do much and

do not interact with windows for 30 seconds

4- a not responding dialo does not appear for programms that do lengthy

operaion but through many API calls (thus windows understands that the

program is progressing with shut down normally) so Keeps desktop on for them

until they exit

5-when I see logging of it means that windows is closing Explorer.exe and

system programms related to GUI!

6-When I see shutting down windows is closing Services and then the device

and system drivers!

 

Am I right about all these?

 

Unfortunately windows does not show what it is doing currently (unlike

linux) so I have no clue especially when it takes long!

I know that if somthing goes wrong I can check log the next time windows

comes up but i may not remmeber when was the last shut down command issued!

and secondly if anything does not go wrong i do not know whats windows doing

during a shutdown in general? especially when a programm is hung and

shutting down or logging off remains for a long time and I can not decide to

press reset or not cause i dont know some critical service (I my eyes) like

SQL server is hung or some programm that its data loss may not matter to me

much!?