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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 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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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 ...
3 votes
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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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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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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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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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