Jamie,
Didn't notice your email because Gmail stuck it in spam. But thanks for
the response. It turns out that I had a device attached to the USB that
was causing a long delay in shutdown, probably about 10-15 minutes. I
had just bought one of those USB cassette players to transfer songs to
digital. While it does that great (hint: it attaches as a USB sound
device so you can select it in Audacity), it has some problem with being
connected at shutdown. So I removed it and all is fine.
Steve
On 2/18/2019 11:34 PM, Jamie Furtner wrote:
There shouldn't be a problem with changing your live.com account
password.
Have you tried a forced shutdown by the command line? Open a command
prompt, type in
shutdown /s /t 1
and see what happens? If it works, try a normal shut down again and
see if that works.
On 2019-02-18 2:24 p.m., Steve Tomporowski wrote:
Well, over the weekend, I found out that the password for my hotmail
account had been pwned, so I changed it on Live.com. Since that
time, Win
10 won't shut down. Was it a problem that I changed my password to my
linked account that way? When I click the shutdown button, nothing
happens
until I do Cntrl-Alt-Del, then there's a quick flash of an error message
and the spinning dots show up and that's where it sits. I haven't
let it
run that way more than 10 minutes, though.
Any ideas?
Thanks....Steve
