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This works for windows servers and it's fucking stupid
Open notepad. Make a change in the notepad window and don't save the change.
For some dumbass reason, likely burried deep on legacy code, the notepad save prompt halts the shutdown process.
I love this. Amazing. Imagine a mission critical server with an edited txt file just saying "DO NOT SAVE AND/OR EXIT!"
Or a proper gpo/registry modification as detailed: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-restart 🤷♂️
I've heard so many horror stories about values getting reset by updates that I don't trust it. That is to say, if my boss or coworkers told me this was what was required to keep the critical server from actually restarting then I wouldn't test it.
That's. Fucking. Insane. Like, it's a documented registry fix from Microsoft themselves. If you have a gpo pushing it, it's not getting reset. Also you literally just disregarded the way 90% of software makes configuration changes to your system, the registry.... Please tell me you don't work in IT because if you do your coworkers and end users must hate their lives.
Literally no need to be this condescending.