Windows is acting fishy

1. Several WordPad windows are open
2. Click menu Restart
3. "WordPad windows preventing shutdown"
4. Restart anyway (clicked the button twice)
5. After the restart, my WordPad windows on the start menu are
duplicated. In other words... Instead of four WordPad windows
open, there are eight WordPad windows open, two iterations of
each.

So I clicked the (taskkill, shutdown) Restart batch file and it
restarted correctly.

This is the second time I have noticed a duplicate copy of my
start menu WordPad files open. The first time it happened I did
not notice why it might have happened. Seems there is something
wrong with Microsoft's Restart routine.

The only possible related setting to do with Windows reopening
at startup (that are not on the start menu) I know of is the
file manager "Restore Folder Windows..." but even that is
unchecked here.

I am not worried about it. I will use the batch files to
restart and shut down. This is a notation in case anybody sees,
or hears about, the same problem.

On 02/05/2018 06:05 AM, John Doe wrote:
1. Several WordPad windows are open
2. Click menu Restart
3. "WordPad windows preventing shutdown"
4. Restart anyway (clicked the button twice)
5. After the restart, my WordPad windows on the start menu are
duplicated. In other words... Instead of four WordPad windows
open, there are eight WordPad windows open, two iterations of
each.

So I clicked the (taskkill, shutdown) Restart batch file and it
restarted correctly.

This is the second time I have noticed a duplicate copy of my
start menu WordPad files open. The first time it happened I did
not notice why it might have happened. Seems there is something
wrong with Microsoft's Restart routine.

The only possible related setting to do with Windows reopening
at startup (that are not on the start menu) I know of is the
file manager "Restore Folder Windows..." but even that is
unchecked here.

I am not worried about it. I will use the batch files to
restart and shut down. This is a notation in case anybody sees,
or hears about, the same problem.

Hi John,

Sound like you have never done an actual reboot or power off.
It Fast Boot is on, you never have.

Turn off Fast Boot and do a "real" reboot.

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-tu...in-windows-10/

To do a real reboot,

winR shutdown /r /r /t 00


HTH, let us know,
-T

T wrote:

John Doe wrote:

1. Several WordPad windows are open
2. Click menu Restart
3. "WordPad windows preventing shutdown"
4. Restart anyway (clicked the button twice)
5. After the restart, my WordPad windows on the start menu
are duplicated. In other words... Instead of four WordPad
windows open, there are eight WordPad windows open, two
iterations of each.

So I clicked the (taskkill, shutdown) Restart batch file
and it restarted correctly.

This is the second time I have noticed a duplicate copy of
my start menu WordPad files open. The first time it
happened I did not notice why it might have happened.
Seems there is something wrong with Microsoft's Restart
routine.

The only possible related setting to do with Windows
reopening at startup (that are not on the start menu) I
know of is the file manager "Restore Folder Windows..."
but even that is unchecked here.

I am not worried about it. I will use the batch files to
restart and shut down. This is a notation in case anybody
sees, or hears about, the same problem.

Sound like you have never done an actual reboot or power
off. It Fast Boot is on, you never have.

Turn off Fast Boot and do a "real" reboot.

Fast boot does not affect Restart. It says so right there in
the setting.

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-tu...ff-fast-startu
p-in-windows-10/

To do a real reboot,

winR shutdown /r /r /t 00

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27532210@N04/?

I turned off fast boot anyway, and got the error situation on
the very next boot.

I think maybe the Windows update problem I was having had
something to do with this problem. Will see.

On 02/06/2018 10:43 AM, John Doe wrote:
Fast boot does not affect Restart. It says so right there in
the setting.

They are slicing the baloney real thin