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How to prevent myself from rebooting windows when VMWare Workstation is running?
I use the free VMWare Workstation version to run VM's on Windows 10, and I keep the Workstation window out of the way on a second Windows desktop since the free version does not support minimizing to ...
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Windows 10\11 - wont shutdown\sleep\restart\run-as-admin
After hours of searching, I've got a very weird problem that I couldn't find a solution to.
Since I upgraded my rig to Intel's 12gen (new motherboard, CPU, RAM, installation), I sometimes have the ...
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server rebooted by "www" user
the server is a 2019 standard vm. It rebooted in the middle of the day, so i went digging through the logs and found this:
The process C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe (servername) has initiated the ...
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Windows 10 Reboot Sticks on Manufacturer Logo Screen, Shutdown works fine
So, this started happening a long time ago, after some windows update I believe, but I cannot figure it out.
Basically when I restart windows, either through an interface (windows directly, updates, ...
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Is it possible to disable restarts in Windows 10? [duplicate]
My laptop has a weird issue where the touch pad doesn't work after the device is restarted. It works fine after a normal shut down, though.
Is it possible to disable restarts so that the computer will ...
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Computer restarts when I don't turn off the monitors before clicking shutdown (No system error)
For quite a while now my Computer keeps restarting when I shut it down. The only way it doesn`t turn on again is to either click the shut down button and then extremly fast turn off the monitor, or ...
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Reboot or shutdown?
I have the following problem: I need to know when the PC start, if the computer has started up after being turned off (cold start), or if the computer has simply been restarted (hot start).
Through a ...
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Allow non-admins to reboot remote computer
Description of Problem
We have some kiosks (running Windows 7) at some of our stores that have software on them that error out occasionally. The fix is to simply reboot these kiosks and they work ...
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Remotely Force Immediate Windows Reboot or Shutdown, without removing AC/DC?
There are rare occasions when I'm not sitting at the PC, and the Windows power system commands are just not going to work for me. I need to programmatically force Windows to stop immediately, ...
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How to disable apps from restarting after Windows shutdown
I have a script that run a shutdown command on my Windows 10 computer every night (shutdown /s /t 300, so no /f there). Sometimes I would have things open like Chrome, Explorer and Spotify etc. How do ...
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Windows XP Will Not Restart
I have a Dell Precision T5500 that is dual-booted with Windows XP and Windows 7.
Previously, when shutting down Windows XP (fresh installation) it would sit at the "Windows is shutting down..." ...
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Windows 10 keeps restarting my PC after shutdown
I installed Windows 10 after an upgrade to Windows 8, however I find that it restarts my PC within 30 minutes of shutting it down.
I switched off scheduled updates but it still happens, quite freaky ...
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Shortcut to shutdown or restart Windows 10 or 11 in less than three keystrokes
On Windows XP we had Win , U + U
On Windows 7 we had Win , Right cursor + Enter
I never had Windows 8, so I am not sure what the shortcut is/was.
There is Alt+F4 and then Enter, but this only ...
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How do I troubleshoot random rebooting?
For the past couple weeks, my PC has started having an issue where it randomly reboots. These reboots have happen 1-2 times a day, and have so far always been when I am away from it.
There isn't any ...
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Weird behavior on reboot and shut down
Ever since I bought my new machine I have this really weird behavior on reboot and shut down:
When I invoke a shut down, the system will shut down just fine, but the hardware stays on. I have to hold ...
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Fast shutdown of Windows Machine
Is there a (programmatic) equivalent to Linux's "Alt-SysRQ Sync Unmount reBoot" reboot sequence on Windows?
Regular shutdown causes a lot of data to be written to drive, yanking the power cannot be ...
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Shutting down a Windows 7 machine sometimes restarts it instead
The machine in question is running Windows 7 (64 Bit) on a Core i5 with 8 GB of RAM with all Windows Updates applied. Not that the specs should make a difference.
Shutting down this machine from the ...
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Restart without shutdown on Windows
Is there a way to restart without shutting down first on Windows? On Linux this is possible using kexec and serves to minimize downtime. What happens is that one does not pass through the bootloader ...
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What's the difference between a shutdown and a reboot on Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Difference between shutdown ( power off ) and restart ( reboot )
When I shutdown my Windows PC sometimes the boot time increases to 150% of the fastest boot it ever did.
But ...
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vs [Shutdown + Start] [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
how does reboot work ?
WinXP: Difference between Log Off and Restart
Is there any difference in the way restart and shutdown + start are handled by a machine?
If it is OS ...
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My computer reboots when I tell it to shutdown
There are about 40 computers at work with this problem. They all have an ASUS P5KPL/1600 motherboard. They are all running SUSE Linux 11.1.
When I tell the computer to shutdown either through the UI ...