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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 12 2020, @04:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the Have-you-tried-turning-it-off-and-restarting... dept.

Windows 7 will not go gentle into that good night: Ageing OS refuses to shut down:

It's not only end of support that Windows 7 diehards have to contend with. Late last week a new problem emerged – systems that refuse to shut down.

Complaints have been widespread on Reddit, Microsoft's official Answers forum and on on SevenForums. Some users also reported other issues, such as not being able to view their documents folder in Explorer.

Fortunately the problem seems to be fixable in most cases. The favourite solution is to tweak the UAC (User Account Control) settings with the Group Policy setting "Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode" or the equivalent registry setting. Then run gpupdate/force, and everything goes back to normal.

There are other workarounds, such as using shutdown from the command prompt, or logging off and then shutting down.

This does not explain the reason for the problem, which appeared mysteriously on or around 7 February. There may be a clue in two other popular fixes.

Have any Soylentils run into this problem? How did you get around it?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @04:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @04:49PM (#957241)

    i have a another problem.
    i drop a folder-path "d:/movies/babylon5/season3" on mpv and fall asleep. after some loud banging and screaming (or such, i dunno, i woke up) i grap for the IR remote and press the "OFF" button
    which seems to turn off the computer.
    the next day, before taking a shower, i press the button on the computer case and head into the shower. i hear the movie continue and think "eh? that's niffty."
    however after about 3 minutes it stops and i think "too good to be true" with a smirk and indeed, the computer wants me to login with password (login screen) which i do and ofc, windows style mpv "is non responsive". only a reboot made mpv work again :)

    anyways, win7 is EOL and these "problems" are just form work so they can pour a solid backdoor ...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @04:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @04:54PM (#957245)

    oh, and i forgot: the solution is to unplug the ethernet cable BEFORE it happens.