From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   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?   
      
     You probably mean the Control Panel -> Power Options setting 'Choose   
   what the power button does' (or the similar setting in Settings).   
      
     If so, then 'When I press the power button:' has been set to 'Sleep'   
   for at least since Windows 8.1, at least for systems which have a smart   
   power button, i.e. a short press does a Sleep and a long press does a   
   forced power off (giving the system no chance to do a proper shutdown).   
      
     If you did a long press, that explains the unexpected shutdown   
   message, because you should do a shutdown via the Start or other menu,   
   not with the power button.   
      
     FYI, on my wife's Mini-PC, 'When I press the power button:' is also   
   set to Sleep, which is no problem, because I only touch the power button   
   to turn the system *on* (which hardly ever happens, because the system   
   is ither awake or sleeping or hibernated) or in the very uncommon case   
   that I have to force a power off.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)