Keep screen lit during shut down ?

[NYJimbo]

Windows 10 has this thing that when you do a shutdown it will try to turn off the screen completely well before the machine is actually off. So quite often the computer looks like its totally off, but actually its still going through a half minute or so of house keeping.

Is there a tweak to tell the computer to keep the screen "lit but black" and not totally off ? Many laptops that have no indicator lights and dead batteries will look like they are off so the customer moves them or pulls the power/charger but its not really off yet. If they do that they basically crash the machine and end up with startup errors which sometimes they pick the wrong things and make matters worse.

I googled this but the phrasing kept coming up with results that didn't match what I'm trying to do.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Turn off fastboot.

 

[NYJimbo]

Turn off fastboot.

Is that the only option ? I would hate to lose boot performance.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Can't have it both ways. Turning off the screen output is part of the reason why the shutdown is so fast.

 

[NYJimbo]

Can't have it both ways. Turning off the screen output is part of the reason why the shutdown is so fast.

That makes me sad. I guess it's time to start drinking....

(I needed an excuse to start, it's closing time...)

 

[uprighttech]

We've noticed the same thing on most Windows 8/8.1 PCs. At first we would tell a desktop on the bench to shutdown, and as soon as the screen went black, we would yank the power cable. We quickly realized that even once the screen went black, the power light was still on and the hard drive was still cranking away. Now we watch for the lights. However on some newer laptops there aren't always power and drive lights to go by so you have to listen for the drive and fan.

I found a Microsoft forum where people were complaining about this from a few years ago. The OP eventually posted again saying...

In case anyone is wondering, yes this is intended behaviour, it will make sense once you use it with a Surface Pro tablet.

On my Surface Pro as soon as I press the shutdown menu the screen goes black, since the tablet is silent and has no lights indicating it's power status, it feels like an instantaneous shut down. Neat trick.

I can see how it might give the appearance of a faster shutdown on devices, but I agree that it is annoying in many circumstances and can cause people to do harmful things to their devices.

 

[NYJimbo]

Now we watch for the lights. However on some newer laptops there aren't always power and drive lights to go by so you have to listen for the drive and fan.

I just worked on a new Asus laptop that has NO LIGHTS. NOTHING. You're in the middle of a virus clean and you see no change to what's going on the screen but you cant see the HD light, so is it doing something ? I can't hear the HD over the fan so that doesn't help. This machine also had no indicator lights to show if it was charging or even plugged in. It only had a light when you pressed the power button, the power button itself on the palm rest would light if it booted. Gee, that really helps me. If it's working it will turn on a light that its working, but nothing else. Why would I need a light to tell me it's working, if it's working ?

Why would you remove all the indicators ? Now that Windows 10 tells you nothing and does most of its boot with a black screen or just swirling dots, we got nothing to help troubleshoot.

Come on, this is not a damn cell phone, it's a COMPUTER, we need more ways of knowing what its doing.

Bring back Power in, Charging battery, Power On, HD activity and WIFI lights and make it a federal LAW that they are on all computers.

Well, that's my rant... where's my beer.....

 

[HCHTech]

Bring back Power in, Charging battery, Power On, HD activity and WIFI lights and make it a federal LAW that they are on all computers.

Seriously. How the hell much do a few LEDs cost, anyway? I hate it when you can't see what's going on.

 

[NJW]

+1 to all the above.

Now that we've moved on to LEDs, why are they so difficult to find on USB flash drives (rhet.)? I'd rather pay an extra [unit of currency] and know that the USB port is working, that the drive cache has finished flushing, that the device has been recognised for booting, whatever.

Gotta love those beancounters. It's surely not an aesthetic choice, is it?

... make it a federal LAW ...

Make that world-wide law. This is a technician's basic human rights issue!

 

[ChrisTech]

With this deliberate implementation coupled with LEDs getting less visible, it makes you wonder what happened to joined up thinking.

Don't the brains at M$ realise that customers will pull the plug on a dark screen?!

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

Windows 10 has this thing that when you do a shutdown it will try to turn off the screen completely well before the machine is actually off. So quite often the computer looks like its totally off, but actually its still going through a half minute or so of house keeping.

Is there a tweak to tell the computer to keep the screen "lit but black" and not totally off ? Many laptops that have no indicator lights and dead batteries will look like they are off so the customer moves them or pulls the power/charger but its not really off yet. If they do that they basically crash the machine and end up with startup errors which sometimes they pick the wrong things and make matters worse.

I googled this but the phrasing kept coming up with results that didn't match what I'm trying to do.

I wonder...will it still do that if you enable to verbose shutdown tweak where it tells you what services its shutting down?

 

[HankArnold]

Windows 10 has this thing that when you do a shutdown it will try to turn off the screen completely well before the machine is actually off. So quite often the computer looks like its totally off, but actually its still going through a half minute or so of house keeping.

Is there a tweak to tell the computer to keep the screen "lit but black" and not totally off ? Many laptops that have no indicator lights and dead batteries will look like they are off so the customer moves them or pulls the power/charger but its not really off yet. If they do that they basically crash the machine and end up with startup errors which sometimes they pick the wrong things and make matters worse.

I googled this but the phrasing kept coming up with results that didn't match what I'm trying to do.

I agree. I have to tip the keyboard and see if the lights are on or off. Very annoying

 

[TechLady]

Somebody could make a pile of money programming a tweak to fix this, like the guy that resurrected the Start button for Windows 8 and 10. GET BUSY PROGRAMMERS!