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Banananita

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    Laptop won't shut down or run any programs
    « on: November 03, 2015, 01:45:24 PM »
    I recently upgraded to Windows 10 on my 3 year old laptop and it was running fine up until yesterday. When I shut it down it hangs on a screen with the dots that chase each other in a circle and stays there. I tried forcing shutdown by holding the power button but it just went to sleep. When I woke it again, none of the programs would open and neither would the start menu. I pressed the windows button and R and typed in "shutdown /s /t 5" but it says "no such interface supported".
    Eventually it shut down yesterday and worked fine after but has gone back to the same thing today.

    Banananita

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      Re: Laptop won't shut down or run any programs
      « Reply #1 on: November 03, 2015, 02:17:58 PM »
      I got desperate and took out the battery. When it restarted it was loading updates. I'm hoping that this was the cause of the problem but I also turned off fast startup as this was recommended elsewhere.