Microsoft has confirmed that it’s testing a fix in the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/09/29/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26220-6760-dev-channel#cw” data-url=”https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/09/29/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26220-6760-dev-channel#cw” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>latest Windows 11 preview builds that is supposed to address a long standing bug with Windows Update, where the “update and shut down” option that appears when an update is pending install didn’t actually shut down your PC.
For a while, users have reported that the “update and shut down” option that appears in the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/start-menu” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/start-menu”>Start menu or Windows Update on data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-11″ data-url=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-11″ target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”/windows-11″ data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-11″>Windows 11 would never actually turn the PC off. The update would install and restart your PC instead,…
