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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?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday February 12 2020, @08:08PM (1 child)
Then, if for some reason the power-button move doesn't work, remove the battery. And if none of those work, a sledgehammer will put an end to your lousy laptop that won't obey the demands of you, it's owner.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Immerman on Wednesday February 12 2020, @08:58PM
>your lousy laptop that won't obey the demands of you, it's owner.
A computer always follows the demands of its owner. If it's not following your commands, then you're not the owner.
And yes, that pretty much rules out computers running Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, etc.