- Microsoft has fixed a long-standing bug in Windows 11
- The issue caused the ‘Refresh and Shutdown’ option to not work correctly
- Instead of applying a pending update and shutting down, the error meant the PC rebooted and required you to shut it down again.
Microsoft has finally fixed another annoying bug that was affecting Windows 11 PCs when updates were applied, although the fix is only in testing at this time.
Windows Central noted that in the latest Windows 11 preview build in the Dev Channel, Microsoft announced the following: “Fixed an underlying issue that could cause ‘Refresh and Shutdown’ to not shut down your PC afterwards.”
You may have encountered this problem before. In fact, it is very likely, at least if you have used the mentioned option, that many people choose ‘Update and restart’, which applies the pending update for Windows 11 and then restarts the system.
However, if you’re in a hurry, you might want your PC to shut down then and then finish the update the next time you turn it back on, so I’d select “Update and Shut Down” to do just that.
However, the error means that instead of shutting down, the PC still continues and restarts, meaning you have to wait for the update process to run, eventually return to the desktop, and then shut down the computer once again.
Analysis: a long-standing oddity
This error is something I have experienced a lot and in fact, most of the time, on the occasions when I used the ‘Refresh and Shutdown’ option, the PC would just reboot. In fact, I haven’t bothered picking up the option in quite some time because of this.
It’s a strange bug (not the first such oddity in Windows, of course) and, as far as I can remember, Microsoft has never addressed the issue. For laptop users, it could be a particularly problematic glitch, as if you left your Windows 11 laptop thinking it was shutting down, because it was told to, and it doesn’t, the laptop could end up staying on for a long time. And if it runs on battery, the power supply could run out, of course.
What’s also strange is that this has been a problem with Windows 11 for years (it dates back more or less to the release of Microsoft’s newest desktop operating system) and, in fact, I’ve experienced this on my Windows 10 PC as well.
The good news is that this bug shouldn’t bother us for much longer, but we still need it to pass testing successfully and reach the final version of Windows 11 (and be confirmed to work) before we can start celebrating.
However, the problem seems so ingrained in Windows as a recurring problem that it’s easy to be skeptical about whether Microsoft has really found the solution here. Fingers firmly crossed.
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