Computer Not fully Shutting Down

[ThatOneHellFox]

Hello, 

The past couple of days I've been having a bit of trouble with my computer. Two problems have been arising, and I haven't thought much about it until the latter started earlier today.

 

1) When i shut down my computer for the night, and come back to it in the morning, all of my applications I had open the previous night are automatically open when I login, exactly as I left them. Namely Google Chrome. I have my chrome settings set so it only opens Facebook and YouTube when I open google Chrome, however recently It's been opening the exact same tabs I had open the previous night. 

 

2) About 30 minutes ago I was getting frame drops in a game, and I decided to open Task Manager to take a look, and I knew Google Chrome was doing some heavy lifting a couple hours prior to that, but I was shocked to see Google Chrome using almost 2GB of my RAM, Decided to do a restart, and opened task manager to see if it helped as soon as I logged in, and low and behold it was still using ~2GB of RAM. 

 

Normally I'd just let it slide because I wouldn't mind, but after the frame drops in a game I have Never gotten Frame drops in, and the public knowledge of the Meltdown/Spectre loophole, I figured I'd better figure it out. 

 

My Computer Specs: 

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 3.0 GHz Processor

16GB T-Force DDR4-2400 RAM

EVGA Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB Video Card

Crucial  - MX300 275GB SSD

MSI B350 Tomahawk Motherboard

 

Thank you for your help, let me know if you need any more information about my computer or otherwise

[Energycore]

3 minutes ago, ThatOneHellFox said:

1) When i shut down my computer for the night, and come back to it in the morning, all of my applications I had open the previous night are automatically open when I login, exactly as I left them. Namely Google Chrome. I have my chrome settings set so it only opens Facebook and YouTube when I open google Chrome, however recently It's been opening the exact same tabs I had open the previous night. 

Do you shut down via the power button? One thing that comes to mind is if you have the power button set to hibernate in the power settings and use that to shut down.

 

4 minutes ago, ThatOneHellFox said:

Google Chrome using almost 2GB of my RAM

That sounds standard for Google Chrome Do you get the frame drops while not running Chrome though?

[DrMacintosh]

7 minutes ago, ThatOneHellFox said:

1) When i shut down my computer for the night, and come back to it in the morning, all of my applications I had open the previous night are automatically open when I login, exactly as I left them. Namely Google Chrome. I have my chrome settings set so it only opens Facebook and YouTube when I open google Chrome, however recently It's been opening the exact same tabs I had open the previous night. 

This is a half baked feature of Windows 10. Only some programs do it and I have no idea how to turn it off. 

 

7 minutes ago, ThatOneHellFox said:

2) About 30 minutes ago I was getting frame drops in a game, and I decided to open Task Manager to take a look, and I knew Google Chrome was doing some heavy lifting a couple hours prior to that, but I was shocked to see Google Chrome using almost 2GB of my RAM, Decided to do a restart, and opened task manager to see if it helped as soon as I logged in, and low and behold it was still using ~2GB of RAM.

How many tabs are open? Try reinstalling Chrome. 

 

 

[Energycore]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

This is a half baked feature of Windows 10. Only some programs do it and I have no idea how to turn it off. 

Never happened to me. I do have the Update service disabled since March

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Energycore said:

Never happened to me. I do have the Update service disabled since March

Well you know why you don't have it but you comment anyway uwu 

[Energycore]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Well you know why you don't have it but you comment anyway uwu 

It's interesting to me though. How much hassle I've avoided by keeping it down, it compensates for the new features for the most part (other than it seems like the laaaatest updates on windows are a tiny bit better for mining)

[PorkishPig]

12 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

This is a half baked feature of Windows 10. Only some programs do it and I have no idea how to turn it off. 

Alt+F4 shutdown/restart will not relaunch programs upon startup. There's really no way to turn this off when using the start menu power options. Microsoft really needs to take a note from Apple on this one.

11 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Never happened to me. I do have the Update service disabled since March

The auto-launch program feature was released with the Fall Creators Update. The Fall Creators update was by far one of the worst updates IMO, as it added worthless features and broke my network, graphics, and PCIe drivers.

[Energycore]

Just now, Homeless Pineapple said:

The auto-launch program feature was released with the Fall Creators Update. The Fall Creators update was by far one of the worst updates IMO, as it added worthless features and broke my network, graphics, and PCIe drivers.

Ahh thanks for clearing that up. Auto-launch has been a feature since forever though. It's called the task scheduler

[KoreanAsian]

If you want a complete shutdown like in the good ol' days back in the XP era, just change your Power Options settings. This WILL reduce start up time by a little, but seeing that you have an SSD, it shouldn't make a difference or have little increase in boot time.

Win (start key) + X → Power Options → Additional Power Settings → Choose what the power button does → Change settings that are currently unavailable → uncheck "Turn on fast startup" → Save changes

[KoreanAsian]

I hate the fast boot option because it doesn't "refresh" the system like it used to, you'd have to restart to "refresh" it. By disabling this, it will "refresh" it every time you shut off your PC

[ThatOneHellFox]

3 minutes ago, KoreanAsian said:

Win (start key) + X → Power Options → Additional Power Settings → Choose what the power button does → Change settings that are currently unavailable → uncheck "Turn on fast startup" → Save changes

When I open this, it just closes immediately. That's also another problem I've been having. The New Win 10 Control panel wont let me change some settings, instead it just closes on its own

[KoreanAsian]

2 minutes ago, ThatOneHellFox said:

When I open this, it just closes immediately. That's also another problem I've been having. The New Win 10 Control panel wont let me change some settings, instead it just closes on its own

There's another way to get into control panel.

Windows Explorer → Click on the address bar and type in "Control Panel" → And by default, it should display in Category mode, switch to either large or small icons and then go into Power Options from there

[ThatOneHellFox]

27 minutes ago, KoreanAsian said:

There's another way to get into control panel.

Windows Explorer → Click on the address bar and type in "Control Panel" → And by default, it should display in Category mode, switch to either large or small icons and then go into Power Options from there

That's how I've generally been getting to my Control Panel and dealing with the minor problems lately, but I do not see an option in either the basic nor advanced settings

 

[KoreanAsian]

24 minutes ago, ThatOneHellFox said:

That's how I've generally been getting to my Control Panel and dealing with the minor problems lately, but I do not see an option in either the basic nor advanced settings

 

Switch this to either big or small icons to see the power options menu

[ThatOneHellFox]

 

3 minutes ago, KoreanAsian said:

Switch this to either big or small icons to see the power options menu

I know how to get there, but there isn't a "Turn on Fast startup" Option

[ThatOneHellFox]

[KoreanAsian]

It is under "Choose what the power button does" on the left column

 

Edit: Sorry, on the last screenshot. Should have been more specific

[ThatOneHellFox]

Huh, Suppose you're right. Didn't seem like a setting that would have to do with the power button. Thanks, I'll see if this works, if not I'll wrestle with it.