Windows 7 Won't Shut Down

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RektSkrubz

RektSkrubz

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After usually clicking shut down or restart, my PC will go to the blue shutting off screen, but it never actually shuts down, making me hard-shut it off. I've given it time before to try to shut down, up to 20 minutes, but when I come back, the PC is brought back to the desktop. I am not going to do a reinstall of my OS, if possible.

Thanks!
 
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elbert
Try opening command prompt in admin. Type MSCONFIG and hit enter. Click startup tab. Here you'll see a list of tasks getting started automatically when you boot up. Look for the ones related to the programs you installed and uncheck them. It won't hurt to uncheck everything except your antivirus program, but try just unchecking the ones related to the newer programs if you can. Then click OK and reboot. Your new programs will still run, they'll just take a second or so longer the first time you start them. If it doesn't work then you may need to uncheck more programs. This will allow you to find which program if any is hanging on shutdown.
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In that command .... shutdown /f /s /t 0 .... it says this about the /s "Use this option with the shutdown command to shut down the local or /m defined remote computer."

On the other hand it also says this:
"/p = This shutdown command option turns off the local computer completely. Using the /p option is similar to executing shutdown /s /f /t 0."

i like the way it says "turns off the local computer completely" and that is says 'similar' (NOT IDENTICAL) to executing shutdown /s /f /t 0

so ... this is unlike to work but it only takes a minute to try.

In the command prompt try typing:

shutdown /p
 
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I am having this exact same problem.
I already found out half the problem.

Currently i got a dualboot between windows 7 and linux, now that should work fine.
except that my laptop is a laptop that came preinstalled with windows 8 which has this hybrid sleep state.
windows 7 bootloader seems to make sure it is able to shutdown the whole laptop, but i use ubuntu and grub2 as bootloader, and then windows quit, but grub2 doesn t.
I know windows shuts down, and the problem is using windows 7 on laptop that came preinstalled with windows 8 or higher. but i don have the solution yet either 🙁.
Hope someone has a suggestion that would work.

Thank you in advance.
Jelle Stappers
 
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I just went thru this....shutdown the pc...when it reboots go to event viewer and see if there is a program that is NOT shutting down! In my case the WD Backup engine module wasn't shutting down so the pc wouldn't shutdown. I removed the program and all is well. weird because I've had that software on my pc forever and it just started giving me this problem about 3 weeks ago🙁
 
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dear paul.

thanks for looking into it. but i figured it has something to do with replacimg the optical disk with an hdd and running dualboot on that. windows doesnt seem to like that. linux works just fine that way
 
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I had the same hang on problem. Command 'shutdown /f /s /t 0' worked very well for me. Then I tried to use "msconfig" to disable the startup programs, it seems an MaAfee Drive Encryption for the hard drive could be the problem. Thanks.



 
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