So this has been making me feel like a complete idiot but I’m annoyed to the point of reaching out for help now.
For close to a year I’ve been unable to shut down my computer with Windows 11 by going to the start menu and shutting down like you normally would. Instead I’ve been opening command line and doing shutdown /s /t 0 and that works. If I click shutdown through the start menu, it logs me out, and then logs me right back in.
Any ideas on why this would be? I’m tired of having to use command line to do this.
Check if there are any processes the system can’t stop.
I happened to see this behaviour in those cases. Maybe boot into safe mode and see if the Windows shutdown button works. If it does it’s definitely a process preventing it shut down.
Nope, no processes that can’t be stopped. This does occasionally happen if something is hung and I didn’t realize, but it will warn me before doing the full logout/login dance.
Maybe a crucial piece of info is I have it set to auto login. So when I turn on my pc it takes me straight into my desktop.
-So you’re gonna need a bootable installer
-When prompted select your boot drive
-Follow the prompts
that’ll fix it, because we don’t have these problems with Debian!!!
But really, chkdsk, SFC, DISM, and if necessary do an in place upgrade.
Typically when the start menu is broken, SFC will finish successfully but DISM will not.
Hope your data is backed up (cloud backups don’t count)
sound super frustrating and definitely a bit of a head-scratcher! I mean, the command line workaround is clever, but having to rely on it for something as basic as shutting down your PC?
Weird. Could it be a quirky Windows update issue, or maybe some background app that’s refusing to let go? Hopefully, someone here has the magic fix because this is next-level annoying.
Could be an issue caused by a Windows update then. I’m an 11 guy myself and it’s updates very often appear to be buggy as hell. Have you tried rolling back to the previous Windows version?
