From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 2/6/2026 8:11 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   > Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > I've found an unusual thing in Windows 11, while looking around for things   
   that might have crashed the system and corrupted it extensively.   
   > In Reliability Monitor there are error messages of "unexpected shutdown"   
   tied to every occasion that I've shut the damn thing down. So I tried my usual   
   shutdown, rebooted, and lo! unexpected shutdown.   
   > I found out that in the Power Options for Win11 there's the option to choose   
   what happens with shutdown, and mine was set to Sleep.   
   > Now, that seems utterly stupid. I have two (no, three) questions.   
   > 1. What earthly advantage does that give? Surely, more problem-causing than   
   helpful.   
   > 2. Who or what set it on my box of tricks?   
   > 3. The on/off button always went off. WTF?   
   >   
   > Ed   
   >   
      
   When you got your mini, was there the normal OOBE (Out Of Box Experience)   
   prompts,   
   indicating no one had played with the settings at all ?   
      
   *******   
      
   You can go Start : Run : control.exe as that opens the control panels.   
      
   The "Power" panel is a place to start.   
      
   Then "Choose what the Power button does".   
   Note that when done this way, this is for "frozen machines"   
   or for "emergency shutdown my machine is on fire". This is   
   not a replacement for some menu option in the OS.   
      
      "When I press the power button"  [Shut down]   
      
   There is also on that page, a   
      
      "Change settings that are currently unavailable"   
      
   Note that, if you press the power button, that's   
   a dirty shutdown, not a controlled shutdown.   
      
   You're supposed to shut down using the menu in Windows 11. Use the "Start"   
   button and the Start Menu, and the power button is in the   
   lower right corner. When you click that, there is a menu,   
   including a Shut Down and that flushes the disk before shutdown.   
      
   As an alternative, click your most on the desktop bare surface   
   (not a window) and use alt-F4 to bring up a more traditional menu.   
   Same options will be there, including Shutdown for an orderly shutdown.   
      
   You may want to disable Fast Start, so that the box does not   
   hibernate the kernel between sessions. The box should start   
   fast enough, with a full kernel boot each time. If that is   
   enabled right now, the "currently unavailable" interface will   
   expose the fast start button so you can disable it.   
      
   *******   
      
   In an Administrator Terminal, you can do   
      
      powercfg -?      # Help options   
      
      powercfg /a      # Available sleep states   
      
   Using that, helps you identify why the "currently unavailable"   
   things are currently unavailable.   
      
   That should be enough to get you started. As   
   we don't know if anything is wrong with it right now.   
      
      Paul   
      
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