{"id":12867,"date":"2017-05-01T20:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T00:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=12867"},"modified":"2017-05-01T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T00:20:59","slug":"having-trouble-shutting-down-windows-10-try-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/having-trouble-shutting-down-windows-10-try-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Trouble Shutting Down Windows 10? Try this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span class=\"auto-style790\"><span class=\"auto-style747\"><span class=\"auto-style9\"><span class=\"auto-style7\">Having Trouble Shutting Down Windows 10? Try this&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style790\"><span class=\"auto-style747\"><span class=\"auto-style9\"><span class=\"auto-style7\">We have had a number of people write us since the introduction of Windows 10 who are having trouble getting their Windows 10 PC to shut down completely, and instead goes into a sleep state but won&#8217;t wake normally from this state.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>First open Control Panel, change the view to Large icons (in the top right corner). Click Power Options. In Power Options, on the left-hand side, click\u00a0&#8220;Change what the power buttons do&#8221;. Make sure &#8220;When I press the power button&#8221; is set to &#8220;Shut down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If your computer still won&#8217;t shut down completely when you press the power button, try this:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style790\"><span class=\"auto-style747\"><span class=\"auto-style9\"><span class=\"auto-style7\"><br \/>\n&#8212; In Control Panel open\u00a0Power Options.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Click on &#8220;Change settings that are currently unavailable&#8221; to show the hidden options.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style790\"><span class=\"auto-style747\"><span class=\"auto-style9\"><span class=\"auto-style7\">&#8212; In Power Options, on the left-hand side, click\u00a0&#8220;Change what the power buttons do&#8221;. Make sure &#8220;When I press the power button&#8221; is set to &#8220;Shut down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Next, uncheck &#8220;Turn on fast startup (recommended:&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style790\"><span class=\"auto-style747\"><span class=\"auto-style9\"><span class=\"auto-style7\">&#8212; Be sure to save your changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Now try shutting off your PC.<\/p>\n<p>(See the screenshot below)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style796\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/poweroptions4.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Computer Tips &amp; Ticks\" width=\"483\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We hope this helps some of you who are having problems shutting down your Windows 10 PC.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having Trouble Shutting Down Windows 10? Try this&#8230; We have had a number of people write us since the introduction of Windows 10 who are having trouble getting their Windows 10 PC to shut down completely, and instead goes into a sleep state but won&#8217;t wake normally from this state.\u00a0 First open Control Panel, change the view to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/having-trouble-shutting-down-windows-10-try-this\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1684,1707,1700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12868,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12867\/revisions\/12868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}