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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: 1) by anubi on Thursday February 13 2020, @03:20AM (1 child)
WIN7, SP1, hasn't seen updates since the FTDI chip nuker came as a security update and I completely lost trust in Microsoft.
I do not run any Adobe products. But I do run a lot of engineering softwares, Eagle, LTSpice, and numerous scientific analysis stuff.
My machine has been air-gapped from the net since the FTDI thing. I simply have too much of my work on my machine, and stuff I am doing for others on it.
I use a cheap Android tablet these days to interface to the net, and it's loaded with FTP servers, a huge memory, and all sorts of capture software so I can vet anything going to my WIN7 machine. I still use that 25 year old FTPLE6.exe by IPSwitch to pull the files from the tablet to the PC.
To me, Microsoft is like a highly skilled artisan, but can't be trusted with anything,. But then I don't trust the Android either. But then I haven't caught Microsoft and Android in bed together yet.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday February 13 2020, @03:22AM
Oh yeah, forgot a link .... Apparently this may be an Adobe clusterfuck....Some Win10 folks are reporting getting nailed as well.
https://borncity.com/win/2020/02/08/windows7-prevents-shutdown-restart-feb-2020/ [borncity.com]
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]