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The instruction at referenced memory could not be written
I recently upgraded to windows 10, and when I turn off or restart the computer, I get this message :
explorer.exe - Application Error : The instruction at 0x0000000180001610 referenced memory at ...
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Batch Files not terminating correctly at shutdown if in timeout countdown phase
On my Win10 1909 PC i have recently discovered that if I shutdown / restart while a Batch File is waiting on a timeout command, then rather than it terminating outright, instead only the timeout ...
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rpc shutdown command from linux to windows server 2012 - connection refused
I am needing to restart a windows server from a linux server.
The error i get is: (i have replaced ip address with xx )
Could not connect to server xx.xx.xx.xx
Connection failed: ...
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Windows 7 problems when relying on "sleep mode" rather than shutting down
After not restarting/shutting down the computer for about a week (I just leave it in sleep mode when not using it), a huge performance drop occurs. Any application loads very slowly, and apparently ...
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In Windows 8 when the fast startup mode is enabled, shutdown saves the windows services
In Windows 8 when the fast startup mode is enabled, shutdown saves the windows services and resumes the services when powered ON again. This behavior is different from normal shutdown as services dont ...
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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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Windows 8 doesn't hibernate after dual-boot with Debian
I have recently installed Debian on my laptop and am now dual-booting it with Windows 8. Windows 8 shows following problems: after spending some time setting up Debian and booting up Win again, I ...
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Wake on LAN from shutdown
I'm having problems enabling Wake on LAN from shutdown on Lenovo B50-50 and Lenovo V15 G2 ITL computers.
There is no BIOS option to enable WOL. In Windows, in network adapter properties I enabled WOL, ...
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Windows 10 keyboard shutdown trigger
I have been experiencing a strange issue causing my computer to shutdown when pressing the following key combination “awe”.
I am completely puzzled by this and can not find any hints or users running ...
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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.
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Every time I hibernate my laptop, and turn it ...
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HP ProBook instant shutdown after first logon the day
Every morning my notebook is shutting itself instantly after the first logon with win hello.
There is nothing obvious written to the event log.
All the following application event raised through the ...
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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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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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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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Dummy not responding application
I am currently determining how a production environment handles hung/not responding applications during Windows shutdown.
For testing that, it would be good to have a dummy application that does ...
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Weird noise coming from laptop sounds static
I've had this laptop for nearly 5 years and I've never noticed this noise before but due to there being an issue with the laptop recently I don't know if that is what has made me notice it.
The issue ...
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Windows 10 Unexpected Rebooting from Bugcheck?
I built my own system about half a year ago and ever since I have had elusive issues that can't seem to be resolved. Windows 10 will unexpectedly restart or shutdown. Over time I have been able to use ...
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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 XPe - no shutdown.exe / "Access is denied"
this is my first time posting and asking for help as I really can't get my head round it.
I'm an IT Technician in a team of 3 (including me) that work in a college. We had an old digital signage ...
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How can I pinpoint which component is causing random shutdowns?
EDIT: Looks like I have a bad capacitor, check these pictures of the motherboard on ECS website and my brown capacitor.. the one near the memory slots.
This could be causing the random shutdowns ...
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Windows 10 S3 shutdown
I am trying to figure out why my Windows 10's regular shutdown button does not let me WOL my PC.
Before my upgrade from 8.1 i was using a small file which ran a command prompt S3 shutdown.
Which ...
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Laptop not shutting down completely. Not fast startup (hardware?)
My Dell Inspiron N5050 does not shut down completely. The screen shuts off completely and Windows seems to shutdown..
however, the power LED stays on (not the charging LED), the fan stays on, and I ...
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Preventing my pc from being shut down remotely
In my college, we use Microsoft Server 2008, and each student has their own account.
In my class, students discovered that they can remotely shut down each other's PCs using cmd (the fact that we ...
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Is fast shutdown/startup ok for restarts for installations
I'm trying to install some applications and update some applications that require a restart to be fully installed/updated. I have fast startup enabled, I believe. If I just shut it down, then turn it ...
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List applications preventing Windows 8 from shutting down
Often, after I have initiated shutdown on Windows 8, I realize there are some applications I would like to close explicitly. I see that Windows 7 lists applications that are preventing the OS from ...
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Schedule a task for all users on a computer
What I am trying to accomplish here is to shutdown a shared machine when it has been idle for 3 hours. I'm in a domain environment with partial admin privileges.
I logged on that machine with ...
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Add a button to windows shutdown?: shutdown, hibernate, logoff, and "something"
In the windows menu there are some default actions, each one corresponding with a batch command.
shutdown /s /t 0
shutdown /h /t 0
shutdown /r /t 0
Is there a way to add a new button to that list, ...
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Windows imaging/backup at shutdown?
While I am still looking for a backup solution that works for dummy users, I have found one feature that (apparently) none of the backup+imaging software tools I've found does:
Doing a harddisk image ...
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Prohibit shutdown /s /t 123 forcible closing of hanged programs?
When time come, shutdown will try close apps, waits about 10 seconds, then terminates all apps(Photoshop for example). I need make it to wait forever, or, better, for very long time(~1 day) and after ...
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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 couldn't shutdown, then It starts without aero
Yesterday I turned off my pc which has Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It didn't turn off so I forced it off as it was getting late. Now I turn it on to find out that stuff like windows aero didn't load. ...
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Windows 7 shuts down automatically after 3-5 minutes unless I wait 3-5 minutes before login
I've tried to:
Disable all services/startup programs in msconfig (including microsoft ones)
Check the disk for errors
Starting up in safe mode (works just fine)
Event Viewer (no description of the ...
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Can I use Task Scheduler or Group Policy Management Console to close Microsoft Sticky Notes when clicking 'Shut Down' on my PC using Windows 10?
I have created a task in Task Scheduler for the Microsoft Sticky Notes app downloaded from the Microsoft Store, to open 30 seconds after I turn on my PC and enter the Desktop, but in order for this ...
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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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Win + X, U, U not shutting down my windows 11
Win + X, U, U is not shutting down my windows 11. Language is not the issue as i am using English. Everything is normal, The issue is that when the list opens after Win+X it doesn't response to any ...
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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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PRevent Windows 10 Shutdown as long as process is still running
I habe a Windows 10 host system that runs a VMWare Workstation virtual machine. I would like to prevent shutdown or logoff on that host system as long as the VM is still running, preferrably ...
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Once the shutdown button is pressed on windows and it displays shutting down screen, is it possible to cancel the shutdown?
Once the Shutdown button is pressed (mistakenly or intentionally) on Windows (10/11), it displays text "Shutting Down" with circle(s) spinning animation. At this stage, pressing most ...
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How to prevent Windows from shutting down if a scheduled task is running?
I have a task scheduled through Task Scheduler that can take a while to complete. I would like it to prevent Windows from shutting down (triggering the typical "waiting for program to close" ...
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Fans speeding up to max at regular intervals, leading to forced shutdowns
This is happening on a plugged in laptop, I know it's the fans because I have an SSD, at regular intervals the fan will go full throttle for like 15 seconds and then the system shuts down. I've ran ...
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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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Shutdown instead of sleep
I need my windows 10 PC to shutdown any time it wants to go into sleep mode.
For whatever reason, instead of sleeping it should (force) shutdown instead.
How should I proceed?
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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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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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Windows 10 shuts down/powers off randomly in sleep mode for no reason
My Windows 10 laptop (a Dell Inspiron 5491 2n1) shuts down randomly during sleep. It does not hibernate, nor perform a clean shutdown, it (seems to) simply power off. This also deletes all saved work.
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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 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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