Windows 11 won't let you shut down? Change this setting right away!

[Admin]

One or more apps can put a hold on Windows shutdown.

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[acadia11]

What I’ve never understood is why windows doesn’t simply ask to take snapshot and restart where you left off? Or better yet auto snapshot and save the current state and then it doesn’t matter.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Looks like AI copypasted this onto Windows Forum and a Chinese site

Fix Windows 11 'App Preventing Shutdown' Error: Quick Registry Tweaks Guide

If you have ever been frustrated by your Windows 11 PC stubbornly refusing to shut down, you are not alone. Countless users report encountering the familiar—and often maddening—"This app is preventing you from restarting" error message just as they are wrapping up their workday or trying to...

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What I’ve never understood is why windows doesn’t simply ask to take snapshot and restart where you left off? Or better yet auto snapshot and save the current state and then it doesn’t matter.

That's called "Sleep".

 

[USAFRet]

why windows doesn’t simply ask to take snapshot and restart where you left off?

That has been a thing for years. Hibernation.

 

[acadia11]

Looks like AI copypasted this onto Windows Forum and a Chinese site

Fix Windows 11 'App Preventing Shutdown' Error: Quick Registry Tweaks Guide

If you have ever been frustrated by your Windows 11 PC stubbornly refusing to shut down, you are not alone. Countless users report encountering the familiar—and often maddening—"This app is preventing you from restarting" error message just as they are wrapping up their workday or trying to...

windowsforum.com

https://www.nihendiao.com/6245.html




That's called "Sleep".

I’m talking specifically on restart request. Not sleep mode and wake up.

 

[acadia11]

That has been a thing for years. Hibernation.

That’s not restart … that’s hibernation or sleep mode. I’m specifically referring to restart.

 

[USAFRet]

That’s not restart … that’s hibernation or sleep mode. I’m specifically referring to restart.

Entirely unsure what you mean.

If you have Hibernation enabled, a 'restart' will bring the system back to what it was doing before.

 

[bkuhl]

"Windows 111 notices that one or more apps has not been closed and therefore it won't shut down"

I don't think I have seen that version available for install yet. Getting a little ahead of ourselves?

 

[stonecarver]

These are hacks I used to do in Windows XP days and they really make a difference. Funny I have not thought about these in years and they popped into my head a few days ago and weird here they are.

When I had a slower speed Celeron or a lower speed GHz P-4 come in to be fixed I did these tricks on the machine and just floored the owner of the computer when they picked up there PC. Our perception on the computers power is the speed of how fast things react and complete.

I really does not give the computer more power but just takes the Microsoft brakes off and runs faster for the average user who just web serfs and does just email.

And the hang time when you Ctrl Alt Del a stuck program is refreshingly instant.

But working in your registry is NOT for everyone.

 

[acadia11]

Entirely unsure what you mean.

If you have Hibernation enabled, a 'restart' will bring the system back to what it was doing before.

Hibernate has nothing to do with restart beyond if you hibernate your machine you enter power saving mode that you can wake the computer up at the same state. Restart is just that a restart meaning I want my machine to immediately shutdown and then turn back on … likely because of update, in hung state, or just because I want to do so. The only reason I can think ms doesn’t auto save state upon restart is because people use it to fix a hung state and wouldn’t want to retain that state. The point MS does auto save open program and return to the same state sometimes when I’ve done windows updates don’t understand why this isn’t default behavior.

 

[snemarch]

Ugh, enabling "AutoEndTasks" is such a horribly bad idea – terminating applications that have a "do you want to exit without saving?" dialog open is almost never a good idea. If you have applications other than that blocking shutdown, it's worth getting that fixed... or creating a script that force-terminates those specific applications at shutdown.

Oh, this reminds me – Microsoft started to do force-terminate shutdowns with their aggressive forced Windows updates. They even combined that with wake timers to get out of standby mode... it's wonderfully delightful to wake up to a desktop machine that should've been in sleep mode, but has been consuming electricity most of the night, and has force-rebooted and discarded unsaved data. Yay, Microsoft!