Windows 10 re-opens all programs after shutdown / restart?

<snip> All the instructions for different ways to shutdown to close programs are meaningless.

I think that last statement was going a little far. At least there are workarounds until MS gets its act together.

Using different shutdown methods or a shutdown script aren't workarounds for the two situations I have mentioned (laptop battery dying or unplugging because of scareware). Wouldn't that clearly make those instructions meaningless for both those circumstances?

For a couple of rare-use cases, you are correct. Statistics don't favor the individual.

My assumption is that a frozen or unresponsive system, which re-opens the applications that froze the system in the first place, is the primary"-use case". And definitely the more pertinent/serious one.

<snip> All the instructions for different ways to shutdown to close programs are meaningless.

I think that last statement was going a little far. At least there are workarounds until MS gets its act together.

Using different shutdown methods or a shutdown script aren't workarounds for the two situations I have mentioned (laptop battery dying or unplugging because of scareware). Wouldn't that clearly make those instructions meaningless for both those circumstances?

For a couple of rare-use cases, you are correct. Statistics don't favor the individual.

<snip> All the instructions for different ways to shutdown to close programs are meaningless.

I think that last statement was going a little far. At least there are workarounds until MS gets its act together.

Using different shutdown methods or a shutdown script aren't workarounds for the two situations I have mentioned (laptop battery dying or unplugging because of scareware). Wouldn't that clearly make those instructions meaningless for both those circumstances?

<snip> All the instructions for different ways to shutdown to close programs are meaningless.

I think that last statement was going a little far. At least there are workarounds until MS gets its act together.

Wonder how many people lose battery late at night on an adult website, then go into the office the next day, plug in their laptop and power it on forgetting what was last on it. Or worse, plug into a projector in front of a classroom or conference.

I want to turn it off for my older family members, because they get those 1-800 scareware pop-ups and don't know how to get rid of it. So, they restart the computer, only to have it open again. If they aren't computer savvy enough to end task on it, and unplugging a computer was their solution. All the instructions for different ways to shutdown to close programs are meaningless.