To turn off your PC in Windows 10, select the Start button, select the Power button, and then select Shut down .

To work around this issue, run the following “shutdown.exe” command to execute power-down and restart operations on local or remote systems: shutdown.exe [-r] [-s] [-m \\computer]

There are many ways to shut down your PC—you can turn the PC off completely, you can make it sleep, or you can hibernate the PC.

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This issue occurs when you right-click the Start tip or press the Windows key+X keyboard shortcut, and then you use the Shut down or sign out option to shut down or restart Windows.

To shut down the server remotely after this problem has already occurred, use Remote Desktop Connection to reconnect to the server, and then use the Close button to disconnect from the server. You can then use the shutdown command to shutdown or to restart the server remotely.

The "Shutdown" button may not be available in the Start menu and grayed out when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del. This issue is due to the Local Computer Policy settings. Click Start, Run. Type gpedit.msc and click OK. Close Group Policy window. Important: This article includes modifying the registry.

For example, you use the Remote Shutdown tool (Shutdown.exe) from the Microsoft Windows 2000 Resource Kit to force a shut down of the computer from a remote computer or you schedule a shutdown of the local computer by using Shutdown.exe in combination with the at command or Task Scheduler.

You run a msiexec command together with a msirmshutdown=2 option to prevent applications or services from being shut down or restarted by Restart Manager. In this scenario, the applications or the services are still shut down or restarted.

Fixes a problem in which there is a six-second delay during shutdown, restart, or logoff a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Additionally, you receive a "1 program still needs to close" message.