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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (www.theregister.com)
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"On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete."

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[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And apparently on launch it was quite buggy in part due to poorly made drivers

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

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.