Windows – Win10 does not shut down, shutdown.exe not working

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So for a few days I can't shut down Win10 anymore. I've searched around quite a lot but haven't found a solution that works, so posting here as my last resort:

  1. The shutdown button on the win10 menu does nothing at all. I click it, nothing happens.

  2. I tried shutdown via shutdown /s /t 0 (and a few other arguments) but nothing happens at all. I can just ctrl+c to exit out of the shutdown program.

  3. I logged off and used shutdown from the login screen. This gets me to a 'shutting down' spinner, but again, nothing happens and I have to hard reboot after a while.

Now I tried all the things that are usually recommended, ie disable hibernation (did that a long time ago) and disable fast boot. I ran chkdsk, sfc and dism, both from within windows and from the boot terminal and no problems can be found. I'm not on an intel chipset so cannot try https://superuser.com/a/959619/727973

–EDIT: It will shut down properly in safe mode —

Hoping someone has come across something similar before and can point me in the right direction, I really want to avoid setting up windows again …

Best Answer

Copy the following text: %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0

Right-click your Windows desktop and select New > Shortcut.

In the Create Shortcut dialog that opens, paste the text into Type the location of the item.

Click Next and name the shortcut "Shutdown".

To shut down the Windows 10 system, double-click the new Shutdown shortcut.

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