What should I do if the computer shows a lock screen after clicking on "shut down"?

Question

Windows

Hello! I'm having a problem on Windows 10 LTSC 2019. When I hit "shutdown", the pc doesn't shut down as usual, it just shows the shutdown splash screen and then crashes to the lock screen. As I suspect, some process is preventing the work from being completed, because all processes are being terminated, this can be understood from the re-opening of Discord and BitTorrent automatically. Is there anyone to help?

UPD: shutdown -s via cmd works, if I don’t find a solution to the problem, I’ll turn it off

Answer 1

If your theory about interrupting shutdown by applications is correct, then something like this (at the very bottom, feel free to skip the rest of the integrity checks and other "solutions" loved by free technical support) should help:

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.
In the right pane, right click the empty space and choose New >DWORD Value.
Rename the newly created DWORD (REG_DWORD) as AutoEndTasks.
Double click on it and change its value 1

Should close all applications without asking questions.
I used to use similar tweaks immediately after installing Windows, but for the last two years this problem has not bothered me, so I scored. In practice, it seems like (there was no timeout there before, I don’t know how it is now) applications can prevent the PC from turning off and remain hanging on the “This app is preventing shutdown” dialog, but I haven’t seen this to cancel the shutdown at all.
In addition, it looks strange to start up againapplications from autorun: this should only happen when you log in again, which, in principle, should not happen without user intervention, as it seems to me ... Dig into the event scheduler just in case, maybe there is a reason for such strange behavior there.
If the registry tweak does not help, then you can dig deeper: there are more settings around this dialog, including at least a timeout.