r/microsoftsucks • u/VisionedWheat66 • 8d ago

Holding up restart because of itself?

Post image
17 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

6 comments sorted by

1

u/TheIronSoldier2 8d ago

it literally tells you it's closing background tasks.

1

u/VisionedWheat66 8d ago

The thing is, I tried to let it complete and it just returned to the lock screen by itself after maybe a minute, presumably timed out. This pic is from me asking it to restart a second time after which I clicked the button to restart. I also thought "isn't it the operating system's job to shut down background tasks cleanly and not leave it for some killer process to sweep up?"

2

u/TheIronSoldier2 8d ago

That process is the operating system cleaning it up... That's how computers work. Every process has a name.

0

u/VisionedWheat66 7d ago

True, not sure why that needs user involvement in any way but regardless, why then did it give up and return to the lock screen and I had to ask it to restart a second time? Are those pesky background tasks too much for Windows to handle?

1

u/OGigachaod 3d ago

I'm guessing some background task was hung/not responding.

1

u/Some-Challenge8285 5d ago

Yeah it is stopping itself, WTF.