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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 hendrikboom on Friday February 14 2020, @04:18AM (2 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 14 2020, @04:18AM (#958061) Homepage Journal

    Not sure. I normally use aptitude in interactive mode.

    Oh! Synaptic seems to be available. I just looked and found it under "preferences" on LXQt's main menu.

    -- hendrik

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday February 14 2020, @06:38AM (1 child)

    by RS3 (6367) on Friday February 14 2020, @06:38AM (#958098)

    Thanks, it's all coming back to me now. Servers I admin have been running 32-bit CentOS 6, but it'll be EOL late this year. 7 & 8 are systemd and 64-bit only... well, there is AltArch which has i386, but also packs systemd of course, so I'm auditioning alternatives.

    I'm not against cli package tools, it's just nice to have both available. I mostly use yum, but I've run yumex a few times (not recently...)

    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday February 14 2020, @06:20PM

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 14 2020, @06:20PM (#958225) Homepage Journal

      You'll find a strong preference for minimalism on the main Devuan mailing list [dyne.org], which is called DNG for no obvious reason.

      Yes, you can install a big fat system easily if you want that.

      Or you can start with the minimum and install things only as you find the need.

      -- hendrik