Hmmm… 🤔

  • ooterness@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

    There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

    I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

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      17 hours ago

      I don’t want to be that guy, because I still hate Windows, but… most people who have these problems just didn’t set up updates properly. Well, that, or they never restart their computer.

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      1 day ago

      Greyed out options like that almost always mean the person has been hitting cancel or delay for several warnings already.

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      1 day ago

      shutdown.exe -a should take care of situations like that. It’s not an excuse for taking away your options on the UI though.

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        1 day ago

        Does that require admin access? It wasn’t their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.

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          1 day ago

          By default a normal user can abort the shutdown. They could also configure group policy to prevent shutdown permissions which also prevents aborting a shutdown.

          The GPO is Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment > Shut down the system.