News How to Fix Windows' Worst Default Setting: Apps Preventing Shutdown

[Admin]

Out of the box, the operating system will wait forever for you to manually close apps before it shuts down or restarts. You can change this.

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[Metal Messiah.]

I have noticed that disabling the Fast Startup setting also works sometimes.

 

[Metal Messiah.]

By the way, why are you guys posting tutorials under the "News" section. It is listed under the news page. I think there should be a separate column/section for this, similar to like "How-To", "Tutorials", or "Tips & Tricks", just as an example. Just my thoughts.

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[randomizer]

Funnily enough, the application that most frequently prevents shutdown for me is the Windows Update dialog. If I click the restart button in that dialog it will never restart without being forced.

 

[apiltch]

By the way, why are you guys posting tutorials under the "News" section. It is listed under the news page. I think there should be a separate column/section for this, similar to like "How-To", "Tutorials", or "Tips & Tricks", just as an example. Just my thoughts.

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As a huge metal fan, I am always eager to answer the Metal Messiah . So it's a CMS thing that if we use the "news" template in our CMS, it ends up in the news river on our home page until it gets pushed off by newer stories. So we use the "news" template for all of our how-tos so that they can get a chance to be in the home page news river and Google News feed for a while. That gives them the best chance of being seen by readers and picked up by Google news and discover.