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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)
submitted 1 day ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My WiFi wouldn't work until I disabled fast-boot in the BIOS and restarted the system twice.

TBF, even with that headache, setting up a windows 11 machine without signing up for an account and personalized ads takes more effort. So I consider it a total success.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

In the past, people assumed computers would get much easier to use. But instead you now need a comp sci degree to turn off all the BS Microsoft intentionally added to make your PC experience worse.