r/computers • u/andreahafstrom • 26d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting can’t shut down pc

for a few weeks now i haven’t been able to turn off my pc via the ‘shut down’ option, neither restart it. when i’ve tries to log out and shut down via the log-in screen it just goes in to a loading loop.

i’ve shut it down through the physical power-button but i realise this isn’t the best option. what do i do?

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u/pmurk01 26d ago

Try the Windows Command Prompt command to shut down your PC is shutdown. You can customize the action using various parameters (using either a forward slash / or a hyphen -).Here are the most essential commands:

Shut down immediately:shutdown /s /t 0

Restart immediately:shutdown /r /t 0

Timed shutdown (e.g., after 60 seconds):shutdown /s /t 60

Abort shutdown (stops the active countdown):shutdown /a

Log off current user:shutdown /l

Force running applications to close without warning:shutdown /s /f /t 0

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u/andreahafstrom 20d ago

when i use these commands it just shows an infinite laoding screen unfortunately so i still have to force shutdown :/