Actually sir I could not able to shut down my laptop right now, when I pressed the power button it is showing shutting down and buffering with a blue background screen. What should I do?

I was working on a word document for an email I was about to send, which I copied. But before I saved it as a document I went to paste it into an email. But immediately after pasting it in, my cursor stopped moving. I cannot click send or anything else! I’ve opened the mouse removed and put back the battery, turned it on and off, but nothing gets the cursor moving so I have no control over the screen. I tried control alt delete and nothing happened. Same with escape. I’m afraid to hold down the power button because I might lose the unsaved documents as well as the unsent emails. Surprisingly, none of your eight suggestions work except that last one. Will I lose my work if I power it down by holding the power button down?

Thank you so much!!!!

In the early days of Windows 10 you could hit ‘Windows Key’ then ‘Up’ ‘Up’ ‘Enter’ ‘Enter’ to shut down ur computer quickly without bothering with any mouse.
I’ve been struggling since they removed that. But the ‘Alt’ + ‘F4’ Alternative seems to work beautifully. Thx for that ^^

Thanks, my taskbar on Windows 10 had stopped working and, somehow, restarting via number 3, repaired it.

my mouse isnt working, and i want to restart my computer with just the keyboard. how do i do that?

Windows 10. Customer tried to reset password without having a reset disc. Can’t log in – don’t have the password. Lock screen does not have a power icon. Power button puts machine to sleep – does not go through POST when woken, so can’t boot from optical drive. ^AltDel does nothing. Laptop has no reset button. …Power button sleep, unplugged, removed battery for 10 min. Boot Acer Aspire – F2 interspersed with Esc at Acer “QuietBoot” splash screen DID get me into the BIOS… Is there a better way?

Computer turns on to the sign in page; let’s me sign in. It will sometimes show the icons on the screen page but they don’t stay long. The pc had updates to my HP windows 10 and after a 8 hour period of starting over many times, I shut the pc off and it began this routine. My pc was running fine prior to this.

I knew the first one but I didn’t know the rest of the so thank you so much

The apps don’t always completely shut down, causing me to force a shut down. How do I avoid dong this?

To add to the power menu option: the alternative way to pop out the menu (Win+X), for the case when for example you run or access (RDP) win10 from a Mac: is right-click on the Start button.

None of those worked for me. For some reason my screen was black but responsive, and I could move my mouse so my computer wasn’t frozen, I just couldn’t right-click, access the start menu (even after pressing the windows key, etc), and CTRL-Escape didn’t work, alt-f4 didn’t work, the only thing that worked was CTRL-Shift-Delete, which pulled up the (hideous) red lock screen page for Windows 10 and on the bottom right there was finally an option to restart/shut down/etc.

Whichever way I close my desk top computer down it restarts again after a couple of minutes. I updated from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 3 days ago and it has done this ever since. Is this some sort of a glitch with W 10. please help I don’t want to have to reinstall W 8.1 again I prefer W 10. Please please help.

I can shut down but my power button light does not go off. Any suggestions?

Scenarios for which we perhaps need more than the 7…
Over Remote Desktop, there is no Shutdown or Restart option in the Start menu; Ctrl/alt/delete can get you to the lock screen to shutdown, but I’m using bat files on the remote machine’s desktop –
Shutdown -`shutdown.exe /p /f`
Restart – `shutdown.exe /r /f /t 00`

Secondly, I’ve yet to find a way to shutdown a headless machine by using the Power button, if the machine is being remoted to & I need to override, or if it is on the lock screen.