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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: 3, Funny) by Booga1 on Wednesday February 12 2020, @06:34PM (3 children)

    by Booga1 (6333) on Wednesday February 12 2020, @06:34PM (#957318)

    That post isn't so bad, but I saw one once that was filled with at least a dozen similar apostrophes. Someone replied, "The apostrophe doesn't mean 'Look out! Here comes an S!'"

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by EJ on Wednesday February 12 2020, @07:52PM (2 children)

    by EJ (2452) on Wednesday February 12 2020, @07:52PM (#957355)

    It's just a symbol to remind you that there's more to see.

    • (Score: 2) by Booga1 on Wednesday February 12 2020, @08:01PM (1 child)

      by Booga1 (6333) on Wednesday February 12 2020, @08:01PM (#957358)

      That's an interesting way to put it. I've never considered it that way. Rules of grammar haven't ruled my life, but some things just stick in my mind.
      That said, if things never changed we'd be speaking old English and stuff. :P

      • (Score: 2) by EJ on Wednesday February 12 2020, @10:20PM

        by EJ (2452) on Wednesday February 12 2020, @10:20PM (#957433)

        I was quoting Imagine Dragons.