#Auto turn off windows 8 windows 8#

This will open Local Group Policy Editor. First off, go to Start Screen, type gpedit.msc, select Apps from right sidebar, and then click gpedit in main window. To get started, make sure that youвЂ™ve logged in as Administrator or have required administrative rights to open and change local policies. If you disable auto-termination of applications policy setting, then both CMD and GUI applications without visible top-level windows will not be terminated, and you have to either manually end their tasks or wait until they unload their processes from the memory.

When all pending tasks are finished, they send signal to Windows to shutdown/restart the system. These applications send an interference call to shutdown process, and then perform their tasks in background. The shutdown policy also deals with those applications, which can forcibly suspend or postpone Windows shutdown process until their tasks are running. Using the Microsoft Management Console snap-in namely Local Group Policy Editor, any user who belongs to Administrators group can disable auto-termination of programs at system shutdown. If youвЂ™re an system administrator, you can set Windows to always suspend system shutdown/restart process until users manually close all the running console and GUI based utilities. Windows 8, just like previous versions of Windows, allows system administrators to change this system shutdown policy. Although this feature helps you quickly quit all those applications and processes, which are stuck in deadlock or livelocks, you often require to save all the changes made to currently running application before Windows shutdowns the system.

#Auto turn off windows 8 windows 8#

You may know that Windows 8 comes with an auto-quit applications feature that looks for all active console & GUI based applications at system shutdown and restart, and forcibly closes them.