Thank You MagicAndre1981 for the brilliant post and instructions. Would you take a look and see what your take is on my slow (7 minutes) win7 shutdown? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11799062/summary_shutdown.xml I think I spotted the culprit at the Logoff section after EndShell with the subscriber named "Sens". I do not know where to go from there though.. Do you need the ETL file as well?