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Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer"

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

martyb writes:

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: 2, Interesting) by Improbus on Wednesday February 12 2020, @06:33PM (5 children)

    by Improbus (6425) on Wednesday February 12 2020, @06:33PM (#957317)

    A more main steam distro that also doesn't use SystemD is MX Linux. Since it is based on Debian it will run on both 64 bit AND 32 bit CPUs. Try finding a modern distro for 32 bit computers. You won't find many.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @09:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @09:22PM (#957406)

    > A more main steam distro that also doesn't use SystemD is MX Linux

    But you still have the choice to use it if you want, in the optional/additional (grub) boot options... somewhere.

  • (Score: 1) by DECbot on Wednesday February 12 2020, @09:43PM

    by DECbot (832) on Wednesday February 12 2020, @09:43PM (#957416) Journal

    I'm running Devuan Ascii on a 32-bit Via processor as a mail/webserver. It started life in 2012 as a Wheezy (Debian 7) box. Migrating to Devuan was cake, I pointed the apt repositories to Devuan Jessie and apt-dist-upgraded. Once on Devuan, dist upgraded again to get to Ascii.

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    cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @11:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 12 2020, @11:14PM (#957465)

    Try finding a modern distro for 32 bit computers.

    Slackware still distributes for 32-bit computers.

  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday February 14 2020, @02:04AM

    by RS3 (6367) on Friday February 14 2020, @02:04AM (#958006)

    Generally you're right, but for sure Slackware and Alpine have 32-bit versions.