Windows 10 can't shutdown normally anymore.

[pifmgr.dll]

This happened to me with my old laptop before, and it seems to only happen on Windows 10, it doesn't happen on Win11 or Win8.1.

I have no idea what caused this, it just happened like 2 days ago and I didn't even update or make some random registry change, I was just doing stuff in SFM and VMware.

Clicking Shut Down like normally just shows that it's shutting down for a moment, then it kicked me to the login screen? Even shutting down on the login screen didn't work, so I instead went to the Recovery Environment and then shutting it down there.

Later, I found out that holding shift while shutting down performs a "full shutdown". I don't know what's the big difference other than normal shutdown are much faster and full shutdown forces everything to close, therefore a "full" shutdown. It said I should turn off fast startup at the Power Options, but I don't want to do that, I want to have the PC shutdown faster. Tried fixing using DISM and SFC but it didn't work.

Is there any way to fix this?

[BRUTAL BUNDY]

Try to use wise care 365

[_I_]

it sounds like its using hibernate and something is waking it
try disabling hibernate

[mtono]

if the problem persists, do a clean reinstall of windows 10 operating system. if the problem remains, you have defective hardware, what i do not think.
byebye

[_I_]

unplug all usb devices
check bios power options to see what wake timers are active and disable them

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Fast startup is not great on Win10. I would simply test to see if it is the culprit then compare the boot times in comparison.

[Carlsberg]

Opprinnelig skrevet av gingus:

Later, I found out that holding shift while shutting down performs a "full shutdown". I don't know what's the big difference other than normal shutdown are much faster and full shutdown forces everything to close, therefore a "full" shutdown. It said I should turn off fast startup at the Power Options, but I don't want to do that, I want to have the PC shutdown faster.

With Fast Start enabled your machine does not shut down, it hibernates much like sleep. With a full shutdown it powers off completely. With todays machines and SSD's its pretty much useless as machines boot pretty fast anyway so Fast Sart is not really needed and it probably shuts down faster than it hibernates.

As to your problem, sounds like you may have a setting as _I_ says or a corrupt hibernate file, disabling Fast Start will delete the hibernate file, (and reclaim about 10/12Gb disk space back), and solve that issue if it is corrupt. Re-enabling FS will create a new hibernate file.

[pifmgr.dll]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Carlsberg:

Opprinnelig skrevet av gingus:

Later, I found out that holding shift while shutting down performs a "full shutdown". I don't know what's the big difference other than normal shutdown are much faster and full shutdown forces everything to close, therefore a "full" shutdown. It said I should turn off fast startup at the Power Options, but I don't want to do that, I want to have the PC shutdown faster.

With Fast Start enabled your machine does not shut down, it hibernates much like sleep. With a full shutdown it powers off completely. With todays machines and SSD's its pretty much useless as machines boot pretty fast anyway so Fast Sart is not really needed and it probably shuts down faster than it hibernates.

As to your problem, sounds like you may have a setting as _I_ says or a corrupt hibernate file, disabling Fast Start will delete the hibernate file, (and reclaim about 10/12Gb disk space back), and solve that issue if it is corrupt. Re-enabling FS will create a new hibernate file.

I don't understand how Fast Startup "hibernates like sleep" it just acts normally until 3 days ago, and also the fact that when I shutdown before it opens my previous opened programs and keeps it in hibernate. Though, I didn't fully did that because I don't have much time to test it.
So I tried disabling Fast Startup, and it shuts down normally. But, when I reenable Fast Startup, the problem still persists. But, the speed is more or less the same actually.

I think I'm just gonna disable Fast Startup and maybe enable it sometime after it got fixed by maybe an upgrade to Win11 or some random thing on my PC.

Opprinnelig skrevet av Wynters:

Fast startup is not great on Win10. I would simply test to see if it is the culprit then compare the boot times in comparison.

The boot times are the same. Just the Fast Startup's broken on Win10.

[SlowClick]

On my PCs and ones I administer I have a shortcut on the desktop called 'Shutdown now".

To make it - right click on the desktop, select 'New Shortcut' and paste this where it says 'Type the location of the item' -

shutdown.exe /s /f /t 02

Then click 'Change Icon' and select something suitable for the icons shown. Mine has a big red power button.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

^ No need to do that crap; just disable Fast Startup + Hibernate. Otherwise the PC shuts down using Hibernate method with RAM Cache. Hence your startups are not clean, they are going off of the cache it was using before.

Hibernate also takes up many GB of disk space and it is a waste. So if you have 16GB installed RAM, the Hibernation Mode is taking up 12GB of disk space whether you use it or not.

Disable via CMD (Run As Admin)
POWERCFG -H OFF
Then exit CMD and restart Windows.

This will disable Fast Startup + Hibernation + recover that wasted disk space it was using.

[SlowClick]

But Bad Mum - after it's done it's just a double click on the desktop icon to shut down. And the shortcut can be copied to other PCs ...

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I understand different ways you can shutdown; that's not the issue.

The issue I'm referring to with above post was that to get the PC to restart/shutdown properly, need to disable Fast Startup + Hibernation and that command makes it very easy to do that. Now the PC should have no issues giving a clean boot each time.

[SlowClick]

Ah yes - actually I did that on my PC and old Surface - just in case. Thank you for the advice.