Disable This app is preventing shutdown message in Windows 11/10

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When yous have open running programs, and you click on Shutdown or Restart you will see a screen with message Endmost apps and shutting downwards/restarting, This app is preventing shutdown/restart. The exact message will read something like this-

Endmost apps and shutting downward/restarting
To go back and salvage your work, click Cancel and finish what you need to.
This app is preventing shutdown.

The options are Shut down anyway and Abolish.

Here's how you tin disable this shutdown message and make your Windows figurer close down right away without displaying this message.

This app is preventing shutdown

This screen appears only at a particular time. Allow'southward assume that you were working on the Paint app and y'all opened an image with Pigment. Now your system wants you to save the image if you have fabricated any change. In case, yous didn't relieve the prototype and tried to shut down the PC without fifty-fifty closing the Paint; this warning message would appear.

This same thing can happen with any other app whenever you lot needed to save something, but you lot didn't. It can happen with Notepad, Photoshop, or any other program.

This warning screen appears because your arrangement asks you to save the change you made in your file and you haven't closed the opened app. Windows doesn't close all open apps automatically, by default.

What you can exercise is:

Click on Shutdown anyway
Click on Cancel and so close the specified apps manually
Make use of the Task Managing director to end processes.

In demand be, you tin can open Result Logs > Windows Logs > Awarding > Awarding events. Now under the General tab, look for The following awarding attempted to veto the shutdown. You volition see the apps which stopped the shutdown.

Disable This app is preventing shutdown alert message using Registry Editor

You tin can skip this warning bulletin using Registry Editor. Equally mentioned before, you need to create a primal in the Registry Editor. However, before getting started, you lot should create a fill-in of Registry files or create a organisation restore signal.

After that, open Registry Editor. For that, press Win + R, type regedit and hit the Enter button.

Now navigate to this path:

Computer\HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

Subsequently selecting Desktop, right-click on the right-paw side > New > String Value.

Create a string value and proper noun it as AutoEndTasks. Now double-click on this and set the value to 1.

This string value will close all the opened apps automatically when you endeavour to close down or restart your system, and you volition non see whatsoever shutdown bulletin.

You could also:

Navigate to the following primal:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control

Click on the "Control" Folder.

Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout". Right-click on information technology and select Modify. The default value is 20000. Setting it to a lower 4 digit value, (say 5000) volition brand your PC shutdown faster, but you could finish upwardly losing information, so use this tweak judiciously. Remember, Windows does not, in whatsoever case, recognize a 3-digit numeral here.

Y'all can also use our Ultimate Windows Tweaker to change this setting easily.

Hope this helps!

TIP: You lot can also cease Windows from opening programs afterwards a restart.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a ten-twelvemonth Microsoft MVP (2006-xvi) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the entire mail & the comments first, create a System Restore Indicate before making any changes to your organization & be conscientious virtually any 3rd-political party offers while installing freeware.