Windows 10: "This app is preventing you from restarting"

[JustGeorge]

This message is about useless ;/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[adrynalyne]

Yep. Been like that for nearly a decade.  Thanks Microsoft.

[neufuse Veteran]

On 04/09/2022 at 23:48, adrynalyne said:

Yep. Been like that for nearly a decade.  Thanks Microsoft.

I've never seen it not tell you what it is, odd that there is no assembly name above it... at the min it usually tells you the exe / host that is holding it up

[adrynalyne]

On 05/09/2022 at 16:10, neufuse said:

I've never seen it not tell you what it is, odd that there is no assembly name above it... at the min it usually tells you the exe / host that is holding it up

I've seen it give names, give single letters, and be blank. Its just another issue MS keeps ignoring.

[+Warwagon MVC]

When you try to terminate an app and it won't close it's stuck.. Then you tell windows to log off, and windows tells the app to close and it the app is like "Ok" then it terminates without issue.

[neufuse Veteran]

On 05/09/2022 at 19:52, adrynalyne said:

I've seen it give names, give single letters, and be blank. Its just another issue MS keeps ignoring.

wonder what causes that, ive never seen it do that

[Steven P. Administrators]

Yeah this is beyond annoying. I shut off my PC most nights, but I also manually close most programs on the desktop before doing that, but Windows still manages to find obscure "Windows Host Manager" or something to complain about preventing the shutdown, if you wait a bit the PC shuts down anyway.

 

I guess it is poorly coded apps that can't be terminated gracefully, it makes me wonder what is going on in the background when you close the apps manually without restarting or shutting down. Qbittorrent is one that doesn't always close properly when exiting the app and has to be force closed in task manager.

[adrynalyne]

On 07/09/2022 at 05:27, Steven P. said:

Yeah this is beyond annoying. I shut off my PC most nights, but I also manually close most programs on the desktop before doing that, but Windows still manages to find obscure "Windows Host Manager" or something to complain about preventing the shutdown, if you wait a bit the PC shuts down anyway.

 

I guess it is poorly coded apps that can't be terminated gracefully, it makes me wonder what is going on in the background when you close the apps manually without restarting or shutting down. Qbittorrent is one that doesn't always close properly when exiting the app and has to be force closed in task manager.

macOS tells you which application it is instead of the executable’s internal name. Still annoying but at least you know why. That and holding Option on restart or shutdown bypasses all but the most insistent apps hanging the machine. 

[Yonah Member]

You should be able to find in the Event Viewer in Windows Vista and later the application that is vetoing the shut down; the source is Winsrv and the event is filed as Event ID 10001 in Windows Logs/Application (e.g., the following application attempted to veto the shutdown: WINWORD.EXE).