I am also running Norton and I just recently am having the same problems as you. Look in your TaskManager to see if you have a program called "ccApp" running. If you do then I can pretty much guarantee you that this is causing the slow shutdown.
When I shutdown my computer I have to manually 'End Process' of the ccApp program.
My two laptops that I use for trading and both don't have floppy drives have a shut down performance improved by 8 secs from 25 secs to 17 secs on one laptop and an improvement from 37 secs to about 25 secs on the other laptop.
Both have Norton programs.
Mark
(a.k.a. NihabaAshi) Japanese Candlestick term
