sharkeWhat if you had an incognito window open in Chrome, and you were viewing something that you didn't want your partner to see (perhaps you've been banned from eating becan and you were looking at becan recipes), and when you were done you closed down Windows without closing down Chrome on the assumption that Chrome would close down as well. As far as I know, Chrome does not prevent Windows from shutting down so you wouldn't get a notification asking you to close it. Then the partner fires up the computer in the morning and is immediately presented with that instance of Chrome in last night's state complete with illicit becan recipes. Divorce results. 
 
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If I were to do such a thing - not that I ever would - I would use a private window which is gone after the browser shuts down and thus cannot reopen when it restarts.

I always close everything before I shut the PC down, always have. Just a habit I suppose.

jamesg1213
I always close everything before I shut the PC down, always have. Just a habit I suppose.

I'm sure we all do James, but the problem here is that Windows 10 will sometimes restart your computer when you don't know it's coming!  It's the main new feature of Win 10 that I despise the most.

 
I can honestly state that my Win10 PC has never restarted after being shut down.
 
Mind you, I'd be impressed if it did, seeing as I unplug it overnight.

SteveStrummerUK
 
I can honestly state that my Win10 PC has never restarted after being shut down.
 
Mind you, I'd be impressed if it did, seeing as I unplug it overnight.

Read "When Harley Was One" by David Gerrold (the same author who wrote the Trouble With Tribbles Star Trek episode).   You'll like it!  
 
 
 
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craigb

jamesg1213
I always close everything before I shut the PC down, always have. Just a habit I suppose.

I'm sure we all do James, but the problem here is that Windows 10 will sometimes restart your computer when you don't know it's coming!  It's the main new feature of Win 10 that I despise the most.

 
Does it? It's never done that in the 2 years I've been on W10, apart from when it's installing upgrades. Unless it's having a little party when I'm asleep or at work...

Oh it's when it's installing upgrades.  Unfortunately, I rarely notice when it wants to install them and am happily working away on some project or another.  Typically I'll have up to three different media players in various states of being paused as well as some file conversions that I let run all night.  Then I wake up in the morning to a lock screen (and I don't lock the computer when I'm home) and I know it's done another 3:30am restart.  Except for a few things (that Sharke doesn't like), everything else is toast and I'm left trying to figure out what I had going on.

Just use separate user accounts, for god's sake. They've been a thing since the turn of the millenium

Maybe the different behaviors can be explained by different versions of Windows?

I believe Windows Home generally does things automatically, whereas Pro and Enterprise give you far more control over what it does.