How To Fix Windows 10 Restarts Instead of Shutting Down
Countless Windows 10 have complained of their computers experiencing shutdown problems immediately after they have been upgraded to Windows 10. The most common of the shutdown problems that Windows 10 may bring to any computer that is updated to it is the computer restarting instead of shutting down whenever the user shuts it down.
In such cases, your computer will restart 5-10 seconds after it powers down regardless of whether you turn it off by clicking on the Shutdown button or by ordering the computer to shut down using a Command Prompt. In addition, putting your computer to sleep by clicking on the Sleep button also results in it waking up after 5-10 seconds. Even if your computer goes into Sleep mode if it is left idle, its screen will turn back on in a couple of minutes. The only way for Windows 10 users suffering from this problem to actually turn their computers off is to unplug them from their power supplies, remove their batteries (for laptops) or hold down their power buttons for 3-10 seconds (for desktop computers).
The cause of this issue has now been revealed as the fast startup feature that Microsoft has introduced with Windows 10 – a feature that is actually meant to allow Windows 10 computers to boot up faster when they are coming out of a shutdown. The following are the solutions that have proven to be highly effective against this issue: