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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 Auto user login after shutdown

My PC, which I keep ON for days, have a scheduled task to turn OFF (shutdown) a certain day of the week. It then turns on automatically after a few hours through BIOS settings. However, it stays on ...
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PC shutdown suddenly and idk the cause

I have a desktop PC I bought 10 years ago and I use it as a "server", so it's always on. It started to suddenly shutdown few months ago, after few days or weeks being on (last time I powered ...
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Remove ShutDown, Login, Welcome, Logout message

I searching for a way to remove/hide the message that appears during ShutDown, Login, Logout step as you can see below: I have a Windows 10 IoT Entreprise LTSC v 21H2 If you have any ideas, do not ...
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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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How Do I Disable the "If you shut down this remote computer" prompt in Windows 10 Pro

I have a 'remote computer' (it is in a rack in my basement) that I use for processing video. When the video processing completes, the software is supposed to shutdown the computer to save power but ...
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Cancel Stop-Computer

I have a program on my system called stopwatch.exe, so sometimes I will have PowerShell open, and I will enter the command. However I also use tab completion, so I will usually enter: stopw TAB then ...
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Windows 10 shuts down when sleeping or hibernating

When I try to put my computer to sleep or hibernate, it stays on for a few minutes, and then proceeds to shut down. I have fast startup disabled, but for some reason the option to "Allow the ...
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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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Windows shuts down unexpectedly on hibernate

I've just bought a new Dell Inspiron 7501 (i7 10750H, nvidia 1650), and after setting up a dual boot with ubuntu 18, i've noticed that the pc fails to restore the previous state when booted up after ...
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How to shut down computer immediately in Win 10

Back in (Windows XP?) times i had written .bat file which when clicked like normal icon would shut down my PC immediately, no questions no update instalations. I copied it from somewhere , so I can ...
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How can I access windows recovery option when dual booting, or do I have any other relatively easy solution?

So, I have windows 10 and ubuntu on my laptop. I was using win10, I shut down the machine, and when I opened it again and tried to enter win10, a black screen with a blinking cursor appeared. I don't ...
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Fast Startup Issues: Shutdown failing

I have a Dell Inspiron and I just recently switched the palm rest and base cover. These are two very trivial fixes and to be honest I wouldn't expect them to have any direct cause in this issue. Since ...
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Weird power/shutdown behaviour with a windows 10 laptop

I've got a Windows 10 Pro Dell Latitude e7440. I'm having a few power issues, which appear to have something to do with shutting down. Full Description Every time I hibernate my laptop, and turn it ...
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Windows 10 pc keeps shutting down when I hibernate [duplicate]

I recently got a new PC. As I always do, I wiped the SSD & reinstalled windows 10 from scratch. Since installing v1903 it has randomly started shutting down when I hibernate - whether through ...
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Windows 10 no longer shutting down after replacing mainboard, cpu and ram

I recently bought some new hardware: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X ASUS TUF B450M-Plus Corsair Vengeance LPX (2x, 8GB, DDR4-3000, DIMM 288) When I finished installing and updating Windows 10, some drivers and ...
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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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Windows 10 shuts down after being in sleep mode overnight

After my computer being to sleep mode over a long time ( 3 or 4 hours ) it shutdown automatically, I have not had this problem when putting my computer in sleep mode during the day and then waking it. ...
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Windows 10 Enterprise N fakes shutdown and then returns to login prompt with flight mode enabled

I first noticed this problem a couple of days ago when I arrived at work to find my PC booted with flight mode enabled. I initiated a shutdown yesterday only to find that my PC's screen went black ...
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Windows 10 shutting down after a few minutes sleeping

Recently I reinstalled windows 10 on my Asus K46CB from scratch and for some reason, every time i put it to sleep it turns itself off after a few hours. It just happens if i leave it sleeping without ...
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Difference between Hibernate and Shutdown in Windows?

I know that hibernate saves the currently opened programs and tasks to the hard drive while shutdown completely kills off all tasks and power down. But what if I power on my pc and then immediately ...
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Windows 10 suddenly started to restart at every boot after properly shutting down

Today morning my PC suddenly rebooted after motherboard logo, but before windows logon screen. And it seems that it does this every time I shut down PC (start-power-shutdown) and then start it with ...
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Windows 10 Randomly Shutting Down in the middle of normal work, with message "Shutting down..."

Starting this week, my Windows 10 has begun to randomly shut down in the middle of normal work. There are no errors or error screens. All of a sudden, the screen fades to the "Shutting down..." ...
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Stop windows 10 from reminding my open programs after shutdown

For a while now my pc keeps reminding the programs I had open after a shut down. I found some messy ways to solve this but its just extra work for something that should be very simple. For example ...
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Windows 10 does not shutdown

So, this problem is weird. I've looked through Google and Super User and haven't found any mention of my specific problems. Whenever I try to shutdown my computer, it will show the "Shutting Down" as ...
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windows 10 flickers screen and then system shut downs

OK here is the situation on my laptop. I have windows 10 1607 ( anniversary update) installed after formatting my whole hard disk and when I install new window then PC remains logged in for about 40 ...
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Booting the pc from keyboard - strange behavior

Last month I tried changing the settings of my motherboard (z170 chipset) so that the computer would boot by pressing any key from my USB keyboard. But this setting seemed to work once in ten times so ...
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Forced shutdown during bsod [duplicate]

I accidentally forced my PC to shutdown by holding onto the power button during a BSOD in windows 10 and ever since, my PC has not been able to boot to the login screen instead it keeps giving the "...
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Win10 does not shut down, shutdown.exe not working

So for a few days I can't shut down Win10 anymore. I've searched around quite a lot but haven't found a solution that works, so posting here as my last resort: The shutdown button on the win10 menu ...
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Windows incompletely shuts down after heavy use

My HP Pavilion 15 Laptop (came with Windows 8 and upgraded to 8.1 and now on Insider Preview) has a Shutdown problem. It'll shutdown completely without any issue if it used for a short while. But ...
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