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How is stopping these days? I seem to remember there were about 79 reasons why Windows might not shutdown.


The only issue I've had with stopping is when it decides to update, and just hangs there with a completion percentage and the message "This could take a while." I almost always end up holding down the power button because it'll sit on the same percentage, sometimes 100%, for hours.


I have a Windows virtual machine that was doing this to me a lot, and making Ubuntu reboots take a long time, and then requiring a disk check after the unclean shutdown.

I found a registry key that tells Windows to force stop apps that block shutdown. I may lose an unsaved document once in a while but I would have lost it anyway, and I am pretty good about saving things when necessary.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop AutoEndTasks REG_SZ 1


My main complaint is all the programs that think all your documents are so precious that they refuse to shut down. Reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOEwiQhzMI


That vm I shut down last week, probably still is shutting down. Hope this answers your question


that happens to coincide with the 79 ways to "power off" windows.




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