Windows 7: Resort to "Force shutdown" automatically after a while, if normal shutdown won't work.

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It happened again. I turned off my pc last night, went upstairs to sleep, and woke up the next morning to find my pc being stuck on the shutdown screen. Sure, it offers a forced shutdown, but that's a little late, when I'm already gone to bed.

So how do I make windows automatically resort to a forced shutdown after, say, 5 minutes, when I click "shutdown"? (When it gets stuck shutting down).

I'm not looking for a batch command, I'd rather tweek something inside Windows (register?) itself.

Any ideas?
 
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click on start, go to search type msconfig.exe, choose selective start up, look at the list of programs that is currently active.
If you don't need skype running at start up or in the background, disable that from starting up with windows.
Samething goes for microsoft word, you can still run them normally but it shouldn't come back up unless you choose normal start up from msconfig.
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When you come back to your computer, does windows tell you it is trying to install any updates and it might automatically reboot to do it for you ?

Also are there any recent software or drivers that might prevent windows from shutting down ?
Lets say you want to go to bed at 10pm, you tell windows 7 to shut down, windows says shutting the system.
However It cannot do so and it will say, waiting on norton, eset, steam or office 2020 to close out but can't even with a force close from task manager.
Some people might miss that little bit of info, I know I do at times when its late at night.

http://www.sevenforums.com/software/191743-windows-7-64-bit-will-not-shut-down.html
 
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It doesn't say anything about an update or automatic reboot. It only tells me what program is preventing shutdown.
Also, not much in the way of software or driver installs lately.. Perhaps some slight updates here and then..

You are right though: It differs from time to time, but most of the times it says that Skype (or Microsoft Word) prevents it from shutting down. I known I should be tackling the source of the problem here, but I'm hoping there is an easy work-around. ;-)
 
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click on start, go to search type msconfig.exe, choose selective start up, look at the list of programs that is currently active.
If you don't need skype running at start up or in the background, disable that from starting up with windows.
Samething goes for microsoft word, you can still run them normally but it shouldn't come back up unless you choose normal start up from msconfig.
 
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