Have you ever ever seen the Home windows login display screen in your monitor and thought, “Wait a minute, did not I inform it to close down?”
For some time, I doubted myself: Possibly I had instructed Home windows to “replace and restart” as a substitute of “replace and shut down.” And perhaps I ought to go verify the burners on the range, as a result of clearly I am unable to be trusted with on/off states.
However no, it wasn’t me. Once I talked about this expertise in a gathering not too long ago, one other PC Gamer editor stated, Wait a minute, you too?
Home windows has been doing this since not less than 2021, when somebody requested what was up with their PC restarting as a substitute of shutting down after updates on the official Home windows discussion board. Then, about eight months in the past, a dozen folks reported the issue in a Reddit thread. That is across the time it began occurring for me.
Some say it occurs at any time when Home windows must restart a number of instances to use an replace, however I am unsure about that—looks as if it simply restarts as soon as, no matter whether or not I inform it to replace and shut down or replace and restart. Again in that 2021 thread, somebody stated it was a BIOS problem, so that you would possibly strive updating your motherboard’s firmware, however I am unable to say whether or not or not that is undoubtedly the issue, both.
Satirically, return far sufficient within the Google search outcomes and you will discover somebody complaining that the replace and shut down characteristic does what it says it does. Quite than restarting to complete the replace, it was leaving the PC shut down and ending the replace on the subsequent boot.
Truthful sufficient—that is additionally not ideally suited. The most effective model of the system would reboot as many instances as wanted after which ‘bear in mind’ to close down as requested. That appears to be the way it’s meant to work in Home windows 11. But it surely does not.
I am unable to discover any official Microsoft help touch upon the matter, however on the prospect that it is my fault for being lazy about motherboard upkeep, I am going to chorus from ranting about Home windows 11 bugs right here.
Primarily, I simply needed to let individuals who’ve skilled this know that they have not misplaced their grip on actuality. You probably did lock your automotive. You probably did flip off the oven. And you probably did click on “replace and shut down.”