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Shutting down Windows Vista Episode 1: The Best Way to End Your Session



When using a laptop on battery power, Standby was a real boon. When the flight attendant handed over your microwaved chicken teriyaki, you could take a break without closing all your programs or shutting down the computer.




Shutting down Windows Vista Episode 1




Hi all,I, along with everyone else, am looking at disabling SMBv1 this week. We already have the WannaCry patches across the board but would like the extra layer of certainty!I've seen a few other threads on this but couldn't find this issue anywhere:As an initial test, I did this manually on my Win8.1 laptop by unchecking SMB1 / CIFS support in "Turn Windows features on or off", as detailed here:https:/ Opens a new window/support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2696547/how-to-enable-and-disable-smbv1,-smbv2,-and-smbv3-in-windows-vista,-windows-server-2008,-windows-7,-windows-server-2008-r2,-windows-8,-and-windows-server-2012 Opens a new windowAfter a reboot, I can't access any shares at all (even ones hosted on server 2012) either directly or through DFS paths.Also, in Network and Sharing Center, my connection shows as "domain.com 2 (Unauthenticated)"It's as if somehow disabling SMB1 stops me talking to my DCs properly. My DCs by the way are one Server2k8R2 and two Server2012s.If I turn SMB1 back on, all returns to normal. If I run a get-smbconnection with it enabled, I can see SMB2 connections to my 2008R2 DC, and SMB3 connections to my 2012 DCs. There are also SMB1 connections to an old NAS we have, which we are replacing shortly!Anyone seen anything similar?Cheers


After shutting everything down, the -hstrong text option halts the machine, and the -r option reboots. PAM console users can use the reboot and halt commands to shut down the system while in runlevels 1 through 5


Moving on to the performance and on-access tests, some severe and immediate problems were noted. Our standard approach in running comparatives on platforms with User Access Control is to leave the controls in place in the test system images, to observe how intrusive the pop-ups are when installing and operating the products, but to disable them when running the actual tests to ease things along. This requires a reboot in Vista, so we restarted the test machine, only to find that it got no further than the login screen. After entering the user password, the screen went dark and stayed that way. Assuming some one-off bug, we restored the image, checked it was working, and rebooted again. Again, only a black screen. Leaving it overnight proved a little better, with some of the desktop eventually appearing, but even after a weekend the machine was not responding to any sort of input. Trying to run the test without a reboot showed the on-access component, while apparently working sometimes, was extremely unstable, shutting down for long periods without any sort of indication to the user that anything was wrong.


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