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by Bill Chambers on Fri Jan 29, 2021 7:17 pm
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I just tried to shut down my desktop for the day and it won't let me do so.  I go down the the "Start" icon but no options pop up to allow me to shut in down.  It did this yesterday for the first time and I just figured it was a little glitch or something so I just pressed the POWER button on the computer until it shut down.  Now, it's done it again today.

It's a PC, an older HP, but upgraded several times, but none recently so I don't think that's of any relevance.

Any suggestions?
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by ChrisRoss on Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:07 pm
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which OS version Bill?
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by Bill Chambers on Fri Jan 29, 2021 8:46 pm
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ChrisRoss wrote:which OS version Bill?
Oops, sorry.  Windows 10 pro
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by Mark L on Fri Jan 29, 2021 9:19 pm
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If you right click on the start icon do you then have shutdown or sign out choices available to you?
 

by Bill Chambers on Fri Jan 29, 2021 9:24 pm
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Mark L wrote:If you right click on the start icon do you then have shutdown or sign out choices available to you?
No, nothing happens if I right click.
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by Mark L on Fri Jan 29, 2021 9:56 pm
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If you hitctrl/alt/delete one of the choices should be "sign out".  Do that and then see if you have an icon on the bottom right of the screen that allows you to shutdown the computer.  

When you right click on the start icon in the very bottom left of the screen you say that nothing happens?  You don't have a menu appear listing a bunch of things, including "shut down or sign out" at the bottom of that menu list?
 

by Bill Chambers on Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:35 pm
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Mark L wrote:If you hitctrl/alt/delete one of the choices should be "sign out".  Do that and then see if you have an icon on the bottom right of the screen that allows you to shutdown the computer.  

When you right click on the start icon in the very bottom left of the screen you say that nothing happens?  You don't have a menu appear listing a bunch of things, including "shut down or sign out" at the bottom of that menu list?
No, Mark.  When I right click the Start icon, nothing appears at all.  I didn't think about Ctrl Alt Del, so let me go try that right now.  Be back soon.
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by Bill Chambers on Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:41 pm
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Mark, CTRL ALT DEL did the trick. it shut down like it's supposed to.

Before I tried that, I tried the Start icon again. When I put the Mouse on the icon, it changed shade like always (so it did sense the mouse) but nothing happened, no menu came up. When right clicked, again, nothing happened, no menu, no nothing.

Thanks for the CTRL ALT DEL reminder, I don't know why I didn't think of that.
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by ChrisRoss on Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:05 am
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You can also left click the icon and it opens up the menu, bottom item is power click that and you can choose shutdown/restart/sleep
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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:50 am
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If it's just completely unresponsive as you are indicating, the final option is to hold the power button on your computer case down intul it shuts down. A terrible wat to shut-down but sometimes, fortunately this is very rare, it's the only remaining remedy.
 

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