Sometimes you just want Windows to shut down. But instead of shutting down quickly, the system seems to ponder, blocked by ...

Stop me if you've heard this one before: It's 17:30 on a weekday, and I'm packing up. Before I leave the office, I just need to shut down my work PC. I'll click 'update and shutdown' and be out of ...

Why this is important: Even though it may sound trivial, this bug undermined trust in shutdown routines, which are essential for laptops, gaming PCs, and any system where you expect it to power off ...

Computers are supposed to be unambiguous. When you click a function, that function is supposed to do what it says it does. So, when you click "Update and shut down" on your PC, you assume your PC will ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. This update mistake has finally been fixed. Updated on Nov. 5 with ...

Windows is a fantastically complicated piece of software, and there are literally millions of ways in which it can go wrong. But one of the more persistent ones over the last few years has been a ...

A GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit, is responsible for processing and rendering visuals. Graphics-intensive tasks, such as gaming, video editing, and 3D modelling, put a load on the GPU. However, if ...

What’s happened? After years of complaints, Windows 11 (and some Windows 10 PCs) will now correctly shut down when you click “Update and shut down”, instead of rebooting unexpectedly. As reported by ...