After you finish using your computer, it’s a common practice to shut it down instead of letting it sit idle. However, there may be certain situations where you won’t be able to shut down the system, or it automatically starts again. In most scenarios, you should be able to restart your system. However, in rare cases, even restarting may not be possible.
This issue mostly happens because of a broken update when the processes involved in shut-down and wake-up procedures conflict with the new system. But some third-party programs may also cause similar conflicts.
Use Shutdown Command or Force Shutdown
If you may’t get your computer to shut down the normal way, first try shutting it down throughthe Run utility.
you may also try forcefully shutting down the system bypressing and holding on to the power buttonfor 3 seconds.
However, this may not take care of the underlying reason for your problem. So you still need to perform the successive solutions to properly resolve it. In fact, forced shutdowns can adversely affect your system as your computer can’t stop all ongoing processes properly.
Change Device’s Power Management Options
Your system includes certain power management settings that allow devices plugged into the USB or Ethernet ports or other components like Intel Management Engine Interface to wake the computer from sleep.
In some previous Windows versions, these settings prevented the computer from shutting down due to bugs in the OS software. While Microsoft has already resolved such issues, there’s no certainty that this issue won’t occur again in the future. So, you should disable all such options and see if you may shut down the computer.
you may also try disabling the ‘Wake on’ features in your BIOS settings.
Turn Off Fast Startup
Like with the Power Management issue, there was also another bug in a previous Windows version that caused this issue wheneverFast Startupwas on. So, similar to the above case, you may still disable this option and verify if your computer shuts down.
Since we already mentioned that update bugs were the most common causes of the issue, you need to ensure you have the latest Windows version. So, you should regularlycheck for updates and install themas soon as they are available.
Troubleshoot in Clean Boot Mode
Windows 8 had an issue where some third-party apps were preventing the computer from shutting down. you may check for such conflicting apps even in the newer Windows versions.
