Does Service Pack 2 slow you down?

[Conan]

Forgot to ask, but is it possible to cut the shutdown time from that 1 minute back to my instantaneous shutdown?

You can try this Josh:

Right click an empty space on your Desktop, choose new shortcut then fill it with the following:

Restart
C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 01

Shutdown
C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 01

then edit the name to whatever you want and you may also want to change the icon by right clicking and choosing properties. Hope this speeds up things for you.