Windows 10 keeps restarting my PC after shutdown

Question

I installed Windows 10 after an upgrade to Windows 8, however I find that it restarts my PC within 30 minutes of shutting it down.

I switched off scheduled updates but it still happens, quite freaky just launches it self if its powered at the wall. Never happened with Windows 8, is there a setting somewhere other than the updates section that can be tweaked?

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 30 '17 at 20:16

I found my computer restarting by itself and I found the problem.

Go into my computer right click properties
then get into device manager.
Under network adapters find your driver right click and make sure that under power management tab you unclick let device start up computer.

It seems that when my network computers tried to talk to my machine it restarted. By the way, I also changed the power setting first to stop quick restart but that alone did nothing on its own

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 14 '15 at 07:47

The problem was

Windows control panel: Settings > System > "Power & sleep" > "Additional power settings" under "Related settings" > "Choose what the power buttons do" > "Change settings that are currently unavailable" > uncheck "Turn on fast startup (recommended)".

on shutdown there was an application which was slower and closed at last, this triggered the "awake" on sleep mode again, resulting in a "reboot" or wake-up.

With this setting the slower application doesn't wake up the pc again. Another solution is to remove the application that causes this.

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 07 '16 at 22:04

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Click start button/icon
Search for cmd
Right-click on icon and select "Run as Administrator"
At command line type the following:
```
powercfg h off
```
Press Enter
Type exit and press Enter

Now try to shut down through start button/power/shut down and see if it works.

edited May 07 '16 at 22:04

techraf

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answered May 07 '16 at 21:30

CowboyTech

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 16 '16 at 14:08

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Since this one is not in the above thread:

Edit your registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
change the key: "PowerdownAfterShutdown" to "1"

answered Sep 16 '16 at 14:08

edelwater

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 21 '16 at 20:42

My Solution for ASUS Desktop (I think Gigabyte MB)

Strangly, but I read it on a forum and cannot find that one again, below worked for me:

Completely power down PC, take out power cord and take out CMOS battery for say at least a minute, I did 5 minutes.

Insert CMOS battery and start up again.

Now of course all bios settings are set to deafult but after continuing the issue was solved. No need for Windows 10 changes.

I think by this method some flag in the cmos is reset which cannot be changed in the CMOS setup.

It came back once, after I changed some devices (VGA card and DVD) but the same job solved it again.

Now running for 6 months witouhout any issues.

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 01 '17 at 11:27

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This solved it for me:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power\HiberbootEnabled=0

answered Sep 01 '17 at 11:27

Martin Kool

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 20 '17 at 06:16

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Clicking restart instead of shutdown, helped me. So, then pc restarted properly and subsequent shutdown also worked as shutdown (not restart)

answered Apr 20 '17 at 06:16

sumit

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 28 '17 at 08:24

1. Solution

If I run in a terminal:

  shutdown /s /t 00

computer shut down and no restart for me.

I try another methods, but:

They not helped for me,

or

They are more complicated than this method.

2. Command line arguments

/s — shutdown the computer,
/t 00 — shutdown immediatly.

3. Shortcut on desktop

For me, the easiest way to start the shutdown command — shortcut on desktop.

Right-click to desktop → New → Shortcut

Shortcut

→ paste shutdown /s /t 00 in open field → Next → type shortcut name (optional) → Finish.

Shutdown

If you double-click to this shortcut on desktop,

computer must shut down without restart.

4. my system environment

Operating System — Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 64-bit EN
Graphics — SyncMaster (1280x1024@60Hz), Intel HD Graphics 4400 (Gigabyte)

5. Extra links

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 25 '19 at 19:38

0

Try replacing your graphics card. That could very-well be the issue. It really sounds like you have a hardware, not software, flaw.

answered Mar 25 '19 at 19:38

Sawtaytoes

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Dec 30 '21 at 18:32

What did it for me in the end was going into Advanced BIOS settings and disabling "Wake on Lid Opening" (My computer is ASUS TUF FX705DT). I tried the following before this to no avail:

Disable fast startup in Power Settings. The setting was not visible for me initially so I had to run powercfg.exe /hibernate on in powershell with admin mode.
Ran sfc /scannow in cmd with admin mode
Went to Advanced System Settings --> Advanced --> Startup and Recovery/Settings and disabled "Automatically restart"
Opened devmgmt.msc. Opened Properties for every network adapter and disabled "Allow this device to wake the computer" in "Power Management"
Browsed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon in regedit.exe and set PowerDownAfterShutdown (string) to 0.
Browsed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Power in regedit.exe and set HiberbootEnabled (32bit DWORD) to 0.

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Sep 11 '15 at 01:06

Close fast startup, Open the Control Panel , and click on the Power Options icon, then choose close the lid, Click/tap on the Change settings that are currently unavailable link at the top, remove the hook of turn on fast startup, click save changes.hope it helps.

score -1 · Answer 12 · edited Jan 13 '16 at 16:40

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If you run a VM, you need to disable the Wake-on-LAN on the VM NIC too. Or use the setting mentioned above to setup the NICs.

edited Jan 13 '16 at 16:40

karel

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answered Jan 13 '16 at 16:38

Mason

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score -2 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 08 '16 at 15:51

WORK AROUND

One solution that I have found to work is to HOLD DOWN the on-off switch for 3 or 4 seconds until PC switched off. Then it remains down!

You will have to exercise caution with this though, Dont kill the pc while its running the operating system. Best thingto do is shut it down and then when it goes to black screen, hold the on-off button down. that way you'll wont corrupt anything.