{"id":224482,"date":"2025-11-04T04:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/update-and-shut-down-now-actually-shuts-down-your-windows-pc"},"modified":"2025-11-04T04:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:03:17","slug":"update-and-shut-down-now-actually-shuts-down-your-windows-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/update-and-shut-down-now-actually-shuts-down-your-windows-pc","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUpdate and Shut Down\u201d Now Actually Shuts Down Your Windows PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/update-and-shut-down-now-actually-shuts-down-your-windows-pc.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Mac\/Linux users out there who might not be familiar, the bug in question would cause your PC to randomly restart after clicking the \u201cUpdate and shut down\u201d button, leaving many users wondering if they had accidentally chosen the wrong option. While largely harmless, it became one of the most infamous errors in Microsoft\u2019s OS due to its sheer annoyance and the company\u2019s apparent reluctance to address it for nearly a decade, with some users reporting it <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/1270724\/why-does-windows-10-update-and-shut-down-not-complete-the-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as far back as eight years ago<\/a> in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>Marking the end of an era of sorts, the KB5067036 non-security update for Windows 11 has finally resolved the bug, with Microsoft fixing the \u201cunderlying issue\u201d that prevented the \u201cUpdate and shut down\u201d button from actually shutting down your PC. Moreover, the new version also tackles the bug that could cause Windows Update to fail with error 0x800f0983, hopefully making the process of updating your PC a bit less cumbersome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Mac\/Linux users out there who might not be familiar, the bug in question would cause your PC to randomly restart after clicking the \u201cUpdate and shut down\u201d button, leaving many users wondering if they had accidentally chosen the wrong option. While largely harmless, it became one of the most infamous errors in Microsoft\u2019s OS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}