For the past few days, a bug has prevented a PC running Windows 7 from shutting down or restarting. However, Microsoft had announced that it would not release any updates for this operating system from January 14, 2020.
The company will therefore certainly have to break its own rule, reports Numerama . Especially since she already did it at the end of January, and for a much smaller and disabling bug than this one.
Towards a new system update?
For the time being, there are two alternative solutions to the Windows 7 bug. But the first must be put into practice each time the PC is restarted, and the second requires modifying elements in the registry editor, a tool far from be mastered by all users. It is always possible to leave the computer on or to force the shutdown by pressing the ignition button, but the latter solution is not without risk.
Windows 7 users are now waiting to find out if Microsoft will release an update for this system. Numerama assumes that a patch will be released soon. The firm had indeed already made a patch available at the end of January to correct a minimal bug, which prevented stretching a wallpaper over the entire surface available under Windows 7.
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