GP is a good shout. I see this issue occur intermittently at work; and whilst I haven’t checked our GPOs recently; I’m fairly certain the incident is intermittent amongst machines running the same policies (IE: a finance dept of 50 machines may see 10 exhibit this behaviour).
I’ve also seen it occur on home PCs. The only constant trait among them that I can determine is the OS (always 11). I just assumed it was introduced by some KB somewhere down the line or something like that.
Ah, I’m not running 11 yet. I’m one of the holdouts still on 10, I upgraded as soon as it was available and then restored from an image to 10. I fear I need to get pushed to it at EoL, since my home rig has two sound cards, a keyboard, and a mouse that are configurable only in windows. But fuck, I’m dreading the day, as I hate the start menu, the possibility of ads in explorer, the context menu is stupid and is not accessibility-friendly, I can’t keep the taskbar at the top, the settings are getting more obtuse…
So yeah that could explain why I’ve not seen it before myself :p
I’m also an it technician with over a decade of experience, and I’ve seen this first hand, on multiple occasions.
I agree PICNIC is the goto in this scenario; it’s not like shutdown commands are new, so why would it not work as intended? it was my initial assumption when faced with these reports; but having seen this occur multiple times, I can confirm it isn’t. My running theory is it’s KB related, as the issue is intermittent by device (though consistent with an affected device… as in the device will exhibit this behaviour every time). It’s also unique to windows 11.
so with that logic, I’ve misclicked like 50 times and never actually clicked the update and shutdown option? Yeah no, the option is two buttons above the update and restart one, so I’ve only ever accidentally misclicked around once or twice.
I don’t think I’ve ever had that happen - maybe it’s a group policy thing or something?
GP is a good shout. I see this issue occur intermittently at work; and whilst I haven’t checked our GPOs recently; I’m fairly certain the incident is intermittent amongst machines running the same policies (IE: a finance dept of 50 machines may see 10 exhibit this behaviour).
I’ve also seen it occur on home PCs. The only constant trait among them that I can determine is the OS (always 11). I just assumed it was introduced by some KB somewhere down the line or something like that.
Ah, I’m not running 11 yet. I’m one of the holdouts still on 10, I upgraded as soon as it was available and then restored from an image to 10. I fear I need to get pushed to it at EoL, since my home rig has two sound cards, a keyboard, and a mouse that are configurable only in windows. But fuck, I’m dreading the day, as I hate the start menu, the possibility of ads in explorer, the context menu is stupid and is not accessibility-friendly, I can’t keep the taskbar at the top, the settings are getting more obtuse…
So yeah that could explain why I’ve not seen it before myself :p
Probably just misclicked and blames it on the OS.
“this has never happened to me, therefore this can’t happen”
As an IT technician with a decade worth of user support and systems admin experience.
This is by far the most probable explanation.
I am not saying it 100% is the problem, just that user error is by far the most common issue I encounter.
I’m also an it technician with over a decade of experience, and I’ve seen this first hand, on multiple occasions.
I agree PICNIC is the goto in this scenario; it’s not like shutdown commands are new, so why would it not work as intended? it was my initial assumption when faced with these reports; but having seen this occur multiple times, I can confirm it isn’t. My running theory is it’s KB related, as the issue is intermittent by device (though consistent with an affected device… as in the device will exhibit this behaviour every time). It’s also unique to windows 11.
Interesting, thank you for your thoughts, since I haven’t seen it in person it is hard to get my head around it.
I completely understand. I’d be skeptical too had I not seen it firsthand
so with that logic, I’ve misclicked like 50 times and never actually clicked the update and shutdown option? Yeah no, the option is two buttons above the update and restart one, so I’ve only ever accidentally misclicked around once or twice.