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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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How to distinguish shutdown from reboot
Following this answer I'm using a batch file to copy some files from my C: drive to another drive on shutdown. Due to the amount of the files this may take up to a few minutes. This is not a problem ...
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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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For the Windows "shutdown" command, is "/p" the exact same as "/t 0"?
For many years I have been absolutely confused by the cryptic help output of shutdown /? (it's not by any means better on Linux/FreeBSD) - (I have deleted many irrelevant flags):
/s Shutdown ...
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Why does Windows 10 not restart/shut down even when explicitly told to?
I've been using this command to shut down Windows 10:
shutdown /p
And this to restart:
shutdown /r
Sadly, this kept causing Windows to not actually restart/shut down. Instead, it would show various ...
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Windows 10 hanging on reboots/shutdowns
I recently started to have an issue with my custom-built system. Whenever I try to reboot/shutdown in Windows 10 the system it will just hang. Unless I do a hard shut down with the power button it ...
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How to get Windows 10 to execute a shutdown script prior to the “closing X apps and restarting screen”?
The problem I have is that I have an application (steamVR) that refuses to shut down when it receives a shutdown signal. It instead brings up a popup "critical error" message and a second "are you ...
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Windows updates: Restart instead of the requested Shutdown?
I often hibernate my laptop. Sometimes, I see the Hibernate button turn yellow and show "Shutdown!", which means that there are important updates that will be installed. I then initiate a lengthy ...
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windows randomly unable to restart or shutdown after prolonged usage
I have a problem with my PC being unable to shutdown or restart after prolonged usage.
I enabled verbose mode during boot / shutdown / restart and I can see the system looping very fast through ...
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Computer randomly shuts off and restarts with Reason Code: 0x500ff
My buddy's computer keeps randomly restarting. Usually when he's playing a game. It has randomly restarted just when he's on YouTube.
Event Viewer says:
The process C:\Windows\system32\winlogon....
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Windows 10 not fully shutting down
I have had this problem show up on multiple computers with different arrangements of hardware: a laptop I used to own, a computer I built for work with an Intel CPU, and the computer I'm typing this ...
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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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Can't shutdown Windows 10 after a clean install
I had to reinstall Windows 10 a few months ago and am currently on v1809. For whatever reason, I cannot shutdown my computer. Everytime I do, it restarts.
I'm sporting an Intel Core i7 4770K on a Z87 ...
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Pc restarts and shutdown at various indefinite times
One day my PC just started shutting down without an error message or anything. So I looked in the event viewer for here came the ID 41 to the vorschein. Without thinking I changed the PSU the problem ...
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