• InFerNo@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    While we’re on this topic, why does “update and shutdown” reboot the PC after updating? Just had this the other day. Was in my bed when I heard the PC running and when I got up to check, lo and behold, the login screen…

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      I thought that it restarted the pc, finished its whatever and then shut it down.

      (Disclaimer: I don’t really use windows, so I’m not super familiar with its latest shenanigans)

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        This is what is supposed to happen with that option, in reality there is a very good chance that it just doesn’t shut itself off afterward. Back when I used the OS I would have it set to auto update and since I shut my computer off nightly I didn’t have a problem with it, but I found that it had a fairly good chance that if it updated when I shut it down my computer would still be running when I woke up in the morning. My work around that I put for it is I put a scheduled shutdown in task scheduler for early in the morning when I knew I was never up so if the system had restarted but failed to power itself back off again it would turn itself off.