Windows 10: Windows 10 signing me out of apps when I shut down computer

Recently, everytime I shut my computer down, I am signed out of everything on Google Chrome, none of my passwords are saving. As well as when I turn the computer on, I am signed out of Outlook, and all of my Adobe Creative Cloud Suite apps. No idea what happened or how I can get it back to how it was.

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Shut down does not sign user out first

Windows 10 ‘Keeps you signed-in’ test: -
(Windows 10 Home 64-bit v1803, Build 17134.523 - Set up as Local Account)

Test 1 - Not signed-out:
1. Sign-in as ‘Visitor’ and then ‘Shut down’ without signing out.
2. Switch back on and sign-in as ‘Another User’ then shut down again. In this case an alert as follows appears: - “Someone else is still using this machine. If you shut down now they could lose unsaved work”. This proves that W10 did not sign 'Visitor' out before shutting down.

Test 2 - Signed-out:
3. Sign-in as ‘Visitor’ and sign-out first then ‘Shut down’ from sign-in screen.
4. Switch back on and sign-in as ‘Another User’ then shut down again. In this case no alerts appear but it is now ‘Another User’ who remains signed-in because they did not sign out before shutting down.

The above does not happen in Windows 8.1 which signs you out when you shut down the PC. It is clear that Windows 10 keeps you signed-in until you sign out manually. Is this a bug or setting on my Windows 10 Home machine or is it how W10 works?

I have looked for settings such as “Sign user out when user shuts down computer” but cannot find any.

I have tried switching ‘Fast start’ off but this does not fix the problem. All it does is increase the boot time.

I have seen a couple of sources that state that clicking ‘Start’ then ‘Shut-down’ is really hibernating and that W10 logs the user off before creating the hibernate file but in my case it is not signing a user out first so it may be a bug.

In order to bypass this Windows 10 problem/bug can anyone tell me if the following batch file script would sign-out the current user first then continue (after sign out is complete) to the ‘Shut down’ phase and shut down the laptop?
The batch file would be named “LO & SD.bat” (Log Off & Shut Down) and I would put it on each user’s desktop. Proposed script as follows: -

@ echo OFF
Shutdown /l (That is a letter l at the end, not a number 1)
Shutdown

I know I could try it and see how I get on but running batch files can have unwanted consequences and I did not want to confuse my OS and put it into a loop I can't get out of.

Any ideas welcome. Thanks.

 

Windows 10 does not sign users out when shutting down or restarting PC

Using Windows 10 Pro 1706.

Two users on PC.

When shutting down or restarting, Windows does not sign the user out. Get warning message "Someone else is still using the PC. If you shut down now, they could lose unsaved work." FYI, Task manager shows the User Status of that someone else as "Disconnected."

It seems only logical that when one user shuts down the PC that that user would be signed out. We can go through extra steps of signing out and then shutdown the PC from the Windows logon screen but I don't know anyone who would think that it's an user
friendly process.

What gives???

 

Turn On AutoEndTasks at Restart, Shut down, or Sign out of Windows 10


Hello Jerry,

This seems to have changed in Windows 10.

If you leave the "End Task" dialog idle for a minute, Windows will automatically cancel the restart, shut down, or sign out instead of forcing the apps closed and continuing with the restart, shut down, or sign out.

As a workaround for what you want for now, you could do this below to make it close any apps preventing the restart, shut down, or sign out quickly, and continue.

1) Turn on AutoEndTasks.

2) Change HungAppTimeout to "1000".

Change HungAppTimeout Value in Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials