Windows 10 - Shutdown, but user stays logged in

How is this an "epic fail"?

When you start your computer (assuming you are using your Microsoft Account) the screen will offer you a choice of sign in options (accounts) and you sign in with your own account info and password/pin/whatever.

Yes, that will sign out anyone else who may have been logged on previously and they would (possibly) lose unsaved work. But, unless they are unbelievably thick they would have saved their work before shutting down the computer anyway so, really, any such risk is negligible.

The same is true for local accounts. Just go ahead and sign in with YOUR password and account info.

And when you're ready to sign out say "Hey, Cortana, sign out."

You can also tell her to shut your device off or lock it if you're going to be away for a bit.

Epic Fail.

With the above solution, still locked out of the laptop until the other user logs on and logs themself off.

So I wait for a fix and figure out a work around. Let's hope the other user doesn't have a mishap else I am locked out of the laptop!

The problem is that even when someone signs out, on boot it automatically goes to their desktop.  However it does the hard shutdown doesn't change that.  My wife will use her account.  She will sign out and after signing out shut down.  I have reset for a hard shut down rather than the default pretend shut down.  Push the power button and when it boots up it automatically reloads her desktop.

The method of shutting down doesn't change anything as the problem is that it does not completely log off.  When I want to go to my desktop after she uses it, I have to wait for hers to load up, then sign out and log in.  It's pretty stupid.  7 had a straightforward system - a hard shutdown automatically logs you out for real.

Again, even if you click on the user icon and sign out, it doesn't really sign you out.  That is the problem.  With Office 2016 Outlook, it's the opposite.  When you log in to your email, it makes you log in over and over again, and there isn't a fix there yet either, though they claim there will be one by next year.  Not only do they keep adding mroe steps, but they don't always work.

That option does not exist in my system win 10 pro.  I have the same issue.  This seems characteristic of MS - make things more burdensome for users and give them no way to opt out.  Another example: Office 365 sign in used to be one step, now it's 2.  Same thiong as going from a single stage logout/shutdown to a two step one.  They do not seem to realize that this is counterproductive and going the wrong way.  They also do not seem to care about their customers and what they want.  It is typical of someone in what amounts to a monopoly position - they just do what they want regardless of what their customers want.

Reduced control by the user, more control by MS.  Remember XP?  It was a pretty good system, so they brought out Vista.  Nobody asked for it, and it was no good.  They fixed it up getting rid of most of the problems and rebranded it as Win 7.  That wasn't too bad, but if you recall folks held on to XP as long as they could, indeed many still use it.  Same thing is happening with & so they put a feature in win update so it won't update 7 with 7 gen intels in them.  Again, forcing people off a better system into one not as good.

Every time I turn around I find another feature that I don't like and can't get rid of.

Hi G.M.P.van Dam,

Please could you post the solution here, as I cannot access the web link you provided.

Thanks.

PB.