• kubica@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I remember one time that windows didn’t want to give an option to shutdown without rebooting for updates. That was the solution.

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      1 year ago

      Or a not so forceful solution: Go into the Ctrl + Alt + Del menu, and press the power button while holding down Ctrl. Now you can do an emergency shutdown.

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        1 year ago

        I wasn’t in the mood for research, the only thing I had in mind was “just let me go to sleep”.

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          I remember finding myself in the exact same situation recently. I was sleepier than I ever remember being and the shutdown screen showed an update pending. I compromised for an OFF monitor with the CPU doing whatever it needed to do.

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          I use “shutdown -s -f -t 0” it forces all apps to shutdown without windows asking you if you want to go back and save or if a program is not turning off.

          • DosDude👾@retrolemmy.com
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            Not really

            The -s stands for shutdown, with other ones being for hibernate, reboot etc.

            The -t stands for time. By default it’s something like 30 seconds. Putting it on 0 makes it instant.

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            Not really, it’s a pretty simple command that not everyone uses anyway. -s is for shutdown, -t for time. There are more complicated things in the Windows command line interface.

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        For a more forceful solution: pull the plug out slightly and then arc a screwdriver across the pins. Note: the screwdriver is consumed in this process.

        Alternate method: pour mercury into an air vent on the computer.

    • u/lukmly013 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Someone installed Windows server 2008 on one of our school computers. The shutdown option was missing. So I asked the teacher about it. He also had no idea how the hell to shut it down. Pressing the power button would just log-out the user.

      For at least 2 years it did fine with forced shutdowns.

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      1 year ago

      thats what my friend does… the windows update somehow always breaks the system, requiring a windows reinstall, so he force shutsdown