What happens, the sound continues to play and process and services closes one by one in the background. We noticed that, the default shutdown sound is among the last ones to close among the services and process. If you slow the speech, the shutdown time increases. Anna said Goodbye, but there was no emotion.Frankly, the laptop hanged in the shutdown screen 3 times out of 14 times we tested it we had to force it to shut down. we tried this way to create a tutorial, but the problem gets more intense when we tested it. Second method is to create a shortcut to shutdown the shortcut will run the vbs script then will shut down any version of Windows 7 after a predetermined time.As majority of the user uses Windows 7 Home Premium they will get frustrated. Unfortunately, Group Policy Editor is available only in Ultimate version of Windows 7 (or equivalent Enterprise edition). The easiest procedure to use the vbs script in the above mentioned way we need is to enable it is to run from gpedit.msc (Group Policy Editor) in Windows 7.So, there is atleast a solid 5 sec delay than the normal process. Recall that, the startup script runs after all needed services are ready so, for shutdown the script is needed to be run as first process: it will run and close, then other processes and services will start to close.

Shut down is somewhat a reverse process when compared to startup: all process, services begin to close one by one.

Windows 7 shutdown screen