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After years of intermittent frustration, Windows’ long‑running “Update and shut down” problem has finally been corrected in preview builds and packaged into the October 28, 2025 optional cumulative update (KB5067036), restoring the simple promise that when you choose Update and shut down the...

Microsoft has quietly closed one of Windows’ long‑running little annoyances: the Start‑menu option labeled “Update and shut down” now behaves as advertised in recent Insider flights and an optional October preview package, restoring deterministic shutdown semantics that many users and...

Windows 11 users on recent preview builds are reporting a strange and persistent regression: closing Task Manager with the window “X” sometimes does not terminate taskmgr.exe, and each reopen can spawn another live Task Manager process — producing dozens of background taskmgr.exe instances that...

Microsoft has quietly closed a small but persistent Windows annoyance: the Start‑menu option labeled “Update and shut down” will now, in the scenarios Microsoft targeted, actually power off the PC after applying updates instead of finishing in a rebooted and powered‑on state. This fix landed...

Microsoft has quietly corrected one of Windows 11’s most persistent small annoyances: the “Update and shut down” option that in some configurations applied updates only to return the PC to a powered‑on state instead of honoring a true shutdown. Background / Overview For several years a recurring...

Microsoft has quietly corrected a long‑running Windows update annoyance: the “Update and shut down” command that sometimes installed updates but left PCs powered on instead of actually shutting them down has been fixed in Insider preview builds, marking the end of an intermittent but widespread...

Microsoft has quietly resolved a long-running annoyance in Windows that left the “Update and shut down” option behaving like “Update and restart” — applying updates and then bringing the PC back to the lock screen instead of powering it off. Background For many Windows users, the...