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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I thought that it restarted the pc, finished its whatever and then shut it down.

(Disclaimer: I don't really use windows, so I'm not super familiar with its latest shenanigans)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is what is supposed to happen with that option, in reality there is a very good chance that it just doesn't shut itself off afterward. Back when I used the OS I would have it set to auto update and since I shut my computer off nightly I didn't have a problem with it, but I found that it had a fairly good chance that if it updated when I shut it down my computer would still be running when I woke up in the morning. My work around that I put for it is I put a scheduled shutdown in task scheduler for early in the morning when I knew I was never up so if the system had restarted but failed to power itself back off again it would turn itself off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That is indeed the way it should happen.

Some updates require a restart to finish.