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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) by toddestan on Thursday February 13 2020, @01:00AM (1 child)

    by toddestan (4982) on Thursday February 13 2020, @01:00AM (#957517)

    That was my impression of Windows 8 too - there were a number of under the hood improvements, and it seemed to be faster and more responsive than Windows 7. The UI was unfortunate and that's what killed it. If Microsoft released the Windows 7 UI on top of Windows 8, it would have been a winner.

    Sadly, Windows 10 didn't seem nearly as snappy as Windows 8 was. Probably all the telemetry and new processes running behind the scenes

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday February 13 2020, @03:17AM

    by RS3 (6367) on Thursday February 13 2020, @03:17AM (#957575)

    Win 8.1 still has the "start menu" desktop UI in it. There are several ways to switch from tiles to standard / traditional" press "Windows" key; click desktop tile; I think there's a hotkey; and there are 3rd party apps to customize almost anything.

    I like and sometimes use "Ultimate Windows Tweaker" - shows stuff I never knew existed. Haven't tried it on 8 yet, but will soon.

    There's this: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/make-windows-8-like-windows-7 [laptopmag.com]

    and this: https://www.techlicious.com/how-to/how-to-stay-in-desktop-on-windows-8-pc/ [techlicious.com]

    and this: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-enable-or-disable-tablet-mode-in-Windows [quora.com]

    Windows 8.1 end of extended support is January 10, 2023, which is why I'm going to try 8.1 for a bit.