Win 10 only hybernating not shutting down

logicfry · 22 Feb 2018 at 07:55

Have a home gaming pc with win 10, it's not shutting down despite the "shutdown" option being selected in the power options. All hibernation options in the options are turned off. Using the Start>shutdown or pressing the power button has the same effect.

The issue came to light as some VPN software stays running in the previous session and other windows apps like the task manager are still running if they were left open before shutdown.

This was a 'thing' when win 10 was first installed as power setting were set to hibernate or sleep rather than shutdown, by default. The new issue has been since an update around a month ago.

Any ideas how to force the OS to shutdown after use rather than sleep/hibernate?

Thanks

ps. please excuse spelling error in title.

Glanza · 22 Feb 2018 at 08:35

Have you disabled fast start up in your power options? That will do a full shutdown and not the low power state Windows 10 has started doing recently.

Power options / choose what the power button does / change settings uac prompt / remove tick from fast startup

marc2003 · 22 Feb 2018 at 08:53

Open an administrator command prompt...

Code:

powercfg -h off

bimbleuk · 22 Feb 2018 at 09:07

I also tend to use "shutdown -s -t 0" from the run command.

As it remembers the last command all you have to do is Windows Key + R then press return.

logicfry · 22 Feb 2018 at 20:36

Thanks very much.

All the visible setting in the power panel were set to never do anything that stops max performance.
The -h off, didn't seem to work as after a shutdown the last vpn session and task manager were still running once booted back up again.

A restart does indeed close the programs and start a new session, shutdown doesn't

shutdown -s I'll try next, if it works might shortcut that.

Hades · 22 Feb 2018 at 21:30

It's because Windows 10 doesn't actually shut down when you shut it down. It's default behaviour is to hibernate so the startup is very fast.

logicfry · 23 Feb 2018 at 08:04

Default is fine, but can it be forced to shutdown instead? as other software doesn't like this never ending session

forcing it to shutdown using the shutdown -s does work, this does seem a bit naff though. Why can't I make it do that every time?

Orcvader · 23 Feb 2018 at 13:57

Have you done what @Glanza suggested? It'll look like this:

You'll need to select "Change settings that are currently unavaliable" to untick the fast start-up option.

logicfry · 3 Mar 2018 at 20:26

yep, the sleep button is set to nothing, every power save and sleep function in the advanced options are all turned off. This is normal for my settings.

Have been playing with powercfg and it seems to be shutting down properly now. Didn't change much but did change things and then set them back to verify the settings. Might just have been the GUI not displaying it perperly? No idea really, it is working though.

Thank you all for the input.