windows shutdown bug

A widely deployed January servicing update has created a surprising reliability problem: some Windows PCs now refuse to power off cleanly, instead restarting, hanging on “Shutting down,” or powering back on after appearing to shut down — and the same regression that showed up first on Windows 11...

Microsoft’s vendor acknowledgment that the January security roll-up is causing some Windows 10 PCs to restart instead of shutting down marks a rare and uncomfortable convergence: an end‑of‑life OS still receiving paid security updates, and a modern, low‑level security feature colliding with...