{"id":488,"date":"2012-08-28T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:21:35","slug":"shut-down-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/shut-down-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut Down Windows 7 Without Installing Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have changed their Windows Update settings to download updates but not install them so they don&#8217;t end up with Windows wanting to restart while they are in the middle of an important project or maybe even a sales presentation.\u00a0 When you shut down your PC, you have the option of installing any pending updates at that time.\u00a0 Or at least it was an option until Windows 7.\u00a0 Now when you go to <em>Shutdown<\/em> in the <em>Start<\/em> menu, there is no option to shut down without installing updates.\u00a0 Anyone who doesn&#8217;t see the problem with that has never needed to shut down their laptop in a hurry so that can get to an important meeting when they get the news that 17 Windows updates will be installed.\u00a0 Or worse yet are the unlucky few trying to shut down their desktop PC in a power outage while the battery backup warns them they have less than 5 minutes of battery power remaining.\u00a0 Good luck if you lose power half way through installing an update.<\/p>\n<p>I finally discovered a simple answer to this problem.\u00a0 The Alt+F4 key combination is a standard Windows command to shut down the current application.\u00a0 If you use it from the Windows desktop, it will shut down Windows and there will be a choice in the drop down list to shut down without installing updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever needed to shut down Windows 7 in a hurry only to discover updates waiting to install, this is the tip you&#8217;ve been waiting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}