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Old February 12th 19, 11:58 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Char Jackson
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Default restarting without update installation

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:34:32 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-8, on Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:44:56 -0600, Char
Jackson wrote:

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:21:40 -0500, micky
wrote:

I'm using win10 and usually restart to update pretty quickly, but this
time when it asked for now, set a time, or Later, twice I chose later.

This morning, I saw that the computer had restarted. It must have,
because no programs were open. Maybe there was a short power failure.


Event Viewer should have an entry about an unplanned shutdown (or words
to that effect) if it was a crash.


I went through every section twice and didn't see anything like that.

There were not tasks in the task bar. That's how I concluded all the
programs had stopped. And the desktop was showing completely.

How could the programs stop by themselves, especially all of them?


How can it make an entry in a log if there is a power failure? Does it
do it when it restarts?


Yes, during restart. Here's an example from one of my PCs from just this
morning:

Level: Critical
Source: Kernel-Power
Event ID: 41
Task category: 63
Message: "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first.
This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or
lost power unexpectedly."


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