Slightly off topic, but my laptop was stuck in a “restarting” loop & I was unable to quit or restart by any of the 7 ways above as
I was unable to leave the screen. I powered off the laptop with the “OFF” button on the laptop. I then powered on the laptop while at the same time tapping F8 & was able to get back to normal access.
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.
john
8 years ago
None of these options worked for me. This is not the first time my new Win 10 desktop would not shut down. Will be using the power button to do so again. Very annoying.
I made the mistake of upgrading my Sony Vaio to Windows 10. The little window Start button doesn’t react at all when I click on it. I had to resort to just shutting off the computer. The Alt F4 choice worked for me. Thank you for posting these suggestions
Samiullah
8 years ago
i’ using window 10 , sometimes my laptop shutdown but mostly it does not do so. i thing some program or software hangs on shutdown. please tell me how can i solve this problem. and also tell me if i shutdown window by pressing power button ,it will be damaging ?
JimR
8 years ago
Is there anyway to shutdown a Windows 10 Laptop when there is a Black/Blank screen? I.e., all of your options require access to a window displayed on the display.
Did you figure out this issue? I’m having the same problem and nothing I’m finding online is helping. Thanks.
Maddie
8 years ago
I can shut down but my power button light does not go off. Any suggestions?
G Tomlinson
8 years ago
Nothing happens when I left click the start up button ,I have to right click and use the x menu
Joyce
8 years ago
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.
Anne
8 years ago
I upgraded to Windows 10 Pro 64 bit a week ago on my desktop. I like the new OS but I cannot make it sleep- it closes down – and it is very “iffy” on boot up. Occasionally boots OK but mostly I have to press the power button a second time, as it switches after the first blue window. It then loads fine.
Tiffany
8 years ago
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.
Ken O
7 years ago
I have a Dell Windows 10 Latitude that is showing the following message: “Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’er just collecting some error info, and then you can restart. (100% complete)”
The problem I am having is the screen is entire screen is blue with the white letters of the message above in the center so I can’t get to ANY icons to restart it therefore I will have to restart it from the key board but so far all the key board functions have failed. I am unable to pull up any options at all to click to shut it down. I have tried holding the power switch and shutting it down but when it comes back up it comes back to this same message and blue screen. I’m thinking it is going to have to be rebooted/restarted for it to start correctly since shutting it down has not worked at all. I’m not familiar with how to reboot it by using the key board but so far, all the options given that I have tried have not restarted it. Any help with this will be very much appreciated…Thanks, Ken
JH
7 years ago
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.
Diane newell meyer
7 years ago
I was stuck, screen not moving,
I am on an HP that has NO POWERBUTTON on the keyboard! How do I force it off. .
Colleen
7 years ago
The apps don’t always completely shut down, causing me to force a shut down. How do I avoid dong this?
Elvin
7 years ago
Hi,
My laptop are not responding quite often. I only can long press the switch on button. But this will easily damage my hardware. Need your advice y my device always hang while I’m working. Using ASUS A456U.
Thank you very much.
Brook
7 years ago
I knew the first one but I didn’t know the rest of the so thank you so much
S K BISWAS
6 years ago
When win hanged or locked or mouse is not visible, how to shut down?
Debra
6 years ago
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.
Arsenije
6 years ago
I think the screen on my laptop is not working … so i want to restart laptop or just turn it of . Is there any way i can turn it of by using keyboard . Please help me . Thanks ?
KGHN
6 years ago
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?
Dan
6 years ago
I was on an HP Envy when my mouse froze. Option #8 finally worked.
xx
6 years ago
my mouse isnt working, and i want to restart my computer with just the keyboard. how do i do that?
Johann Skibbe
6 years ago
easiest way, pretend there was a power failure, unplug pc and start over!
Windows10 user
6 years ago
used a program that was not compatible with windows 10 and all your tricks are blocked so what now
My window 10 laptop wont allow me to shut it down… The power button on the screen is now a light gray and it wont allow me to click it. Also the password bar is a light gray and I cant click it. In conclusion I fant sign in, shut it down, or even restart it.
Gilbert McCauley
6 years ago
Since installing fall creators update windows 10 won’t shut down except by the power button. It goes to a blank screen the circling dots start, below them it says shutting down but goes into a continues loop and have to use the power button to shut down. The reset button just restarts it but sometimes shuts down right after that.
Alejandra
6 years ago
What if, I tried all of this and none of them worked? ?
There is something seriously wrong with your computer.
Jake Watson
6 years ago
Thanks, my taskbar on Windows 10 had stopped working and, somehow, restarting via number 3, repaired it.
Ganesh
6 years ago
my laptop(windows 10). Power button has not working damage also …so i want any shorcut keys for swith on the laptap please help sir
Broockle
5 years ago
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 ^^
Julien
5 years ago
Hi, I have a problem where everytime I shutdown my computer running Windows 10 it instantly restarts. In order to get it to shutdown I have to unplug it completely and let drain itself of its battery, but even then as soon as I plug it in again it starts up without me pressing the On button.
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?
Yes, your unsaved files/modifications will be lost when you shut down the computer.
Ky v. B.
5 years ago
You’re shutdown list is really helpful.thanks.
Bharat Saikia
5 years ago
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?
Anonymous
5 years ago
Nothing worked for my Lenovo laptop. I was not able to open my start menu, use any of the icons in the task bar, use the search bar, nothing. I had to unplug the laptop and let the battery died in order to shut it down.
That’s because you have a system or hardware issue.
Mohan Rao
5 years ago
Friday, 23 November 2018
I have Windows 10 on my HCL Laptop. I downloaded Visual Studio 15 (Community Version) two days ago.
Now my laptop starts booting but the Power is going off after sometime.
All my attempts to Reset it have failed since the power is going off before the booting completes.
Please help in restoring Windows 10
L Asid Ahamed
5 years ago
Good day to you
I couldn’t find any way to shutdown my laptop – windows 10 even I followed the above instructions.hope you will help me in this regard.
Ed
5 years ago
I can boot the computer and get to a command prompt — but can’t get Windows to boot up. Need to know how to start Windows from the command prompt.
AJ
4 years ago
My desktop PC running W10 was shutdown unintentionally by a power outage. When I attempt to start it now, the monitor displays a “No signal” error message. In addition, the audio chimes that accompany a successful start-up do not occur. I think that the lack of visual (and perhaps audio output is secondary to failure to boot up properly. Without video,
, it’s hard to perform diagnostics (or anything else). If an improper shutdown led to the problem, maybe a proper shutdown would lead to a normal boot-up. I tried Cntl-Alt-Del, but this did notl ead to any shutdown, even when I input the key combination muliple times in succession. I did get the machine to shutdown using prolonged depression of the power button, but when I powered up afterward there was still no video output nor any audible. Feel stuck!
Naseem
4 years ago
Shutting down is written on the screen again and same thing is coming and no other key is working
Rick Gabbard
3 years ago
Left computer on and just closed my computer top . When I opened up my computer there was no screen opening . Can’t get it to open up now
Carmen
1 year ago
Im having trouble with Windows working properly as 24cdays ago it started acting up while i was on that day in windows security settings right now i !m using my samsung ph connected to my pc via usb cable.trying to follow what im reading here but its getting hard on the eyes
Carmen
1 year ago
Forgot to tell u about The Harddisk Security blue box screen that ever since the trouble startedthat is what recently shows up now n thats frustrating too.thanx have a nice day
Carmen
Slightly off topic, but my laptop was stuck in a “restarting” loop & I was unable to quit or restart by any of the 7 ways above as
I was unable to leave the screen. I powered off the laptop with the “OFF” button on the laptop. I then powered on the laptop while at the same time tapping F8 & was able to get back to normal access.
Mary Brady i love you
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.
None of these options worked for me. This is not the first time my new Win 10 desktop would not shut down. Will be using the power button to do so again. Very annoying.
I made the mistake of upgrading my Sony Vaio to Windows 10. The little window Start button doesn’t react at all when I click on it. I had to resort to just shutting off the computer. The Alt F4 choice worked for me. Thank you for posting these suggestions
i’ using window 10 , sometimes my laptop shutdown but mostly it does not do so. i thing some program or software hangs on shutdown. please tell me how can i solve this problem. and also tell me if i shutdown window by pressing power button ,it will be damaging ?
Is there anyway to shutdown a Windows 10 Laptop when there is a Black/Blank screen? I.e., all of your options require access to a window displayed on the display.
Did you figure out this issue? I’m having the same problem and nothing I’m finding online is helping. Thanks.
I can shut down but my power button light does not go off. Any suggestions?
Nothing happens when I left click the start up button ,I have to right click and use the x menu
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 upgraded to Windows 10 Pro 64 bit a week ago on my desktop. I like the new OS but I cannot make it sleep- it closes down – and it is very “iffy” on boot up. Occasionally boots OK but mostly I have to press the power button a second time, as it switches after the first blue window. It then loads fine.
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.
I have a Dell Windows 10 Latitude that is showing the following message: “Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’er just collecting some error info, and then you can restart. (100% complete)”
The problem I am having is the screen is entire screen is blue with the white letters of the message above in the center so I can’t get to ANY icons to restart it therefore I will have to restart it from the key board but so far all the key board functions have failed. I am unable to pull up any options at all to click to shut it down. I have tried holding the power switch and shutting it down but when it comes back up it comes back to this same message and blue screen. I’m thinking it is going to have to be rebooted/restarted for it to start correctly since shutting it down has not worked at all. I’m not familiar with how to reboot it by using the key board but so far, all the options given that I have tried have not restarted it. Any help with this will be very much appreciated…Thanks, Ken
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.
I was stuck, screen not moving,
I am on an HP that has NO POWERBUTTON on the keyboard! How do I force it off. .
The apps don’t always completely shut down, causing me to force a shut down. How do I avoid dong this?
Hi,
My laptop are not responding quite often. I only can long press the switch on button. But this will easily damage my hardware. Need your advice y my device always hang while I’m working. Using ASUS A456U.
Thank you very much.
I knew the first one but I didn’t know the rest of the so thank you so much
When win hanged or locked or mouse is not visible, how to shut down?
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 think the screen on my laptop is not working … so i want to restart laptop or just turn it of . Is there any way i can turn it of by using keyboard . Please help me . Thanks ?
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?
I was on an HP Envy when my mouse froze. Option #8 finally worked.
my mouse isnt working, and i want to restart my computer with just the keyboard. how do i do that?
easiest way, pretend there was a power failure, unplug pc and start over!
used a program that was not compatible with windows 10 and all your tricks are blocked so what now
Uninstall that program?
My window 10 laptop wont allow me to shut it down… The power button on the screen is now a light gray and it wont allow me to click it. Also the password bar is a light gray and I cant click it. In conclusion I fant sign in, shut it down, or even restart it.
Since installing fall creators update windows 10 won’t shut down except by the power button. It goes to a blank screen the circling dots start, below them it says shutting down but goes into a continues loop and have to use the power button to shut down. The reset button just restarts it but sometimes shuts down right after that.
What if, I tried all of this and none of them worked? ?
There is something seriously wrong with your computer.
Thanks, my taskbar on Windows 10 had stopped working and, somehow, restarting via number 3, repaired it.
my laptop(windows 10). Power button has not working damage also …so i want any shorcut keys for swith on the laptap please help sir
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 ^^
Hi, I have a problem where everytime I shutdown my computer running Windows 10 it instantly restarts. In order to get it to shutdown I have to unplug it completely and let drain itself of its battery, but even then as soon as I plug it in again it starts up without me pressing the On button.
Can you help me with this ?
Thanks in advance !
Julien
Thank you so much!!!!
Thank you so much for this article
You are welcome. 😉
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?
Yes, your unsaved files/modifications will be lost when you shut down the computer.
You’re shutdown list is really helpful.thanks.
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?
Nothing worked for my Lenovo laptop. I was not able to open my start menu, use any of the icons in the task bar, use the search bar, nothing. I had to unplug the laptop and let the battery died in order to shut it down.
None of these work if my screen has gone black…
That’s because you have a system or hardware issue.
Friday, 23 November 2018
I have Windows 10 on my HCL Laptop. I downloaded Visual Studio 15 (Community Version) two days ago.
Now my laptop starts booting but the Power is going off after sometime.
All my attempts to Reset it have failed since the power is going off before the booting completes.
Please help in restoring Windows 10
Good day to you
I couldn’t find any way to shutdown my laptop – windows 10 even I followed the above instructions.hope you will help me in this regard.
I can boot the computer and get to a command prompt — but can’t get Windows to boot up. Need to know how to start Windows from the command prompt.
My desktop PC running W10 was shutdown unintentionally by a power outage. When I attempt to start it now, the monitor displays a “No signal” error message. In addition, the audio chimes that accompany a successful start-up do not occur. I think that the lack of visual (and perhaps audio output is secondary to failure to boot up properly. Without video,
, it’s hard to perform diagnostics (or anything else). If an improper shutdown led to the problem, maybe a proper shutdown would lead to a normal boot-up. I tried Cntl-Alt-Del, but this did notl ead to any shutdown, even when I input the key combination muliple times in succession. I did get the machine to shutdown using prolonged depression of the power button, but when I powered up afterward there was still no video output nor any audible. Feel stuck!
Shutting down is written on the screen again and same thing is coming and no other key is working
Left computer on and just closed my computer top . When I opened up my computer there was no screen opening . Can’t get it to open up now
Im having trouble with Windows working properly as 24cdays ago it started acting up while i was on that day in windows security settings right now i !m using my samsung ph connected to my pc via usb cable.trying to follow what im reading here but its getting hard on the eyes
Forgot to tell u about The Harddisk Security blue box screen that ever since the trouble startedthat is what recently shows up now n thats frustrating too.thanx have a nice day
Carmen