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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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It was certainly pushed on many PCs that had no business trying to run it, especially laptops. But honestly I've used both XP and Vista and even on a computer that could run it, I didn't see anything that justified how much more resources it required.
And apparently on launch it was quite buggy in part due to poorly made drivers
The OS was kinda buggy, but vista changed a lot with drivers so probably most of the issues vista had were drivers. I bought a laptop with vista on it in 08 and it was rock solid.