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I have been particularly annoyed after putting my computer to sleep and coming back in the morning to find that it rebooted and is now idling at the login scree

by mohn 10y ago

I have been particularly annoyed after putting my computer to sleep and coming back in the morning to find that it rebooted and is now idling at the login screen, with my previous session of open programs lost. I've had good results with this guide[0], which describes a lot of the same steps as the guide that mintplant already linked to, plus a few more. So far, it seems that no Windows updates have undone the changes I made by following the guide. I'm pretty sure I went through the guide before receiving the anniversary update, too. In addition to no longer waking from sleep, my computer also no longer forces me to restart while it's awake and in use. [0] http://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wake-timers-from-waking-windows-10-desktop http://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wake...

TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
in the morning to find that it rebooted and is now idling at the login screen You know what really turns my hair gray about this, I mean aside from losing the state of all my open apps, is that when I actually do want to shutdown a Windows computer it almost always seems to not shutdown because some open program is blocking shutdown with a dialogue box asking if I want to save my work or if I really want to quit.
- mohn 10y ago
  That's terrible, and not too far off my own experience. When I do manage to shut down Windows 10 without open programs blocking the process, I almost always get a brief flash of a "Breakpoint exception [hexadecimal error code] ... [something or other]" dialog box that displays for less than a second. I don't think it shows up in the Event Viewer logs, so if I want to search for the error code online and remedy the problem, I'll have to be quick with a handheld camera. It could be 3rd party software erroring out, so I guess I won't blame Microsoft for this one until I have more info.

by mohn 10y ago

TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago

in the morning to find that it rebooted and is now idling at the login screen You know what really turns my hair gray about this, I mean aside from losing the state of all my open apps, is that when I actually do want to shutdown a Windows computer it almost always seems to not shutdown because some open program is blocking shutdown with a dialogue box asking if I want to save my work or if I really want to quit.

mohn 10y ago
That's terrible, and not too far off my own experience. When I do manage to shut down Windows 10 without open programs blocking the process, I almost always get a brief flash of a "Breakpoint exception [hexadecimal error code] ... [something or other]" dialog box that displays for less than a second. I don't think it shows up in the Event Viewer logs, so if I want to search for the error code online and remedy the problem, I'll have to be quick with a handheld camera. It could be 3rd party software erroring out, so I guess I won't blame Microsoft for this one until I have more info.