Patch Tuesday Update Makes Windows PCs Refuse To Shut Down (theregister.com)
- Reference: 0180602752
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/16/2144202/patch-tuesday-update-makes-windows-pcs-refuse-to-shut-down
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/patch_tuesday_secure_launch_bug_no_shutdown/
> In [2]a notice on its Windows release health dashboard, Microsoft confirmed that some PCs running Windows 11 23H2 might fail to power down properly after installing the latest security updates. Instead of slipping into shutdown or hibernation, affected machines stay stubbornly awake, draining batteries and ignoring shutdown like they have a mind of their own and don't want to experience temporary non-existence.
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> The bug appears to be tied to Secure Launch, a security feature that uses virtualization-based protections to ensure only trusted components load during boot. On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete. From the user's perspective, everything looks normal -- until the PC keeps running anyway, refusing to be denied life.
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> Microsoft says that entering the command "shutdown /s /t 0" at the command prompt will, in fact, force your PC to turn off, whether it wants to or not. "Until this issue is resolved, please ensure you save all your work, and shut down when you are done working on your device to avoid the device running out of power instead of hibernating," Microsoft said.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/patch_tuesday_secure_launch_bug_no_shutdown/
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-23h2#devices-with-secure-launch-might-fail-to-shut-down-or-hibernate
Coded by Copilot (Score:1)
Vibe coding all the way
Simple solution: (Score:1)
...just keep running Windows and eventually it will crash.
23H2 ? (Score:2)
Who is still using that...
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I'm on 24h2 and it's been doing this 'I will not shut down' thing for about a week.
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Only some ed and enterprise users, normally 23h2 has EOLed Nov. 2025.
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Is there even a point for them sticking to the older version? Presumably you do that to avoid getting hit with bleeding-edge bugs. But that doesn't seem to have helped here.
I guess sticking to the same sub-version maybe helps when Microsoft intentionally breaks something...
How could you (Score:3)
How could they fuck up something so basic that's been working for a decade? Why the need to screw with that code? Or is this a side-effect of them screwing up some other code?
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Linux had this problem with certain intel laptops for years after intel updated their sleep states. Though this is many years ago.
I seem to remember warning people (Score:2)
...that this sort of thing was a possibility when the first ATX power supplies came out. I still say that if you can't disconnect the power source, especially if it's a difficult to remove battery for a laptop or phone, you can't really turn it off.
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This is more likely about correct management of the sleep state, not "management of sleep state being possible in the first place".
Did original ATX spec even have sleep states? I recall them coming much later, mostly pushed by intel for laptops.
But ATX-like power management is indeed a requirement for sleep statement management to be possible in the first place, so you could claim it enabled this problem. The issue is that AT couldn't have sleep states in the first place, making it utterly unsuitable for mo
Uhm (Score:1)
It's called the power cord... perhaps?
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That's what I thought at first. Then I remembered laptops. Do you really want to have to take out the battery every time you need to shut it down?
NEETs, nepo babies, and H-1Bs (Score:4, Insightful)
Looks like those WASP and Jewish hobbyist coders of the 1980s did a lot better than the "professional" (careerist) NEETs, nepo babies, and H-1Bs. Maybe someday humanity will learn... well, anything, a single god fucking damned thing. But evidence suggests otherwise.
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Pray tell, how is someone Not Engaged In Employment Or Training a professional, or a careerist?
I know you want to throw around some heavy-hitting words, but when you treat them just as random meaningless letters, they don't actually hit .
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To be fair, getting proper sleep states working on linux at least for intel processors was a known issue for a very long time. It did get fixed eventually, but it took years.
Symptoms were notably similar to this nonsense. Have a laptop, hibernate it, it doesn't go to a proper sleep state and empties the battery.
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To be fair:
1) they didn't use it back then, just heard about someone complaining and
2) Suspend-hibernate in Windows didn't quite work in 1996 either.
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Sleep mode in Windows doesn't work in 2020 either, not even with 5 years of subsequent BIOS, driver, and OS updates.
Not sure if Microsoft is to blame, it could be Dell. But in October I put Debian on the laptop, and now it sleeps like a baby.