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    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 18, 2026 23:25:18
    Subject: Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking is disabled or powered off?


    Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking (both wirelss and
    wired) is disabled or powered off?

    I am wondering.... :)

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  • From Alan K.@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 18, 2026 11:30:55
    Subject: Re: Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking is disabled or powered off?

    On 1/18/26 10:25 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

    Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking (both wirelss and
    wired) is disabled or powered off?

    I am wondering.... :)

    Test it out yourself!

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  • From VanguardLH@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 18, 2026 12:46:32
    Subject: Re: Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking is disabled or powered off?

    "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking (both wirelss and
    wired) is disabled or powered off?

    I am wondering.... :)

    When Outlook gets gracefully exited, it will send any pending e-mails in
    an Outbox. That takes some networking. I think there is an option to
    disable mail check on exit. I leave Outlook running 24x7, so it can
    alert me when new e-mails arrive, or for calendar appointments. On
    shutting down, Windows requests open programs/apps to exit. With
    Outlook, that takes several seconds for Outlook to complete a graceful
    exit, so the shutdown pends. Similar for any other programs that are
    open at the time of shutdown. Sometimes a program does not respond to
    the Windows' request for it to unload, and you're offered to force the
    shutdown which kills the program.

    If you have no process that is doing networking, there is nothing using
    the network, so even if the program ignores the exit request you can
    kill it during shutdown. I'm sure all programs and services have
    graceful exit routines rather than getting killed, like using taskkill. Services also need to get stopped. You'd have to figure out which
    services to stop, and wait for them to stop, but that would take a lot
    longer than having Windows do the stop on services, and wait for the
    service to go into Stop state.

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  • From Frank Slootweg@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 18, 2026 19:15:33
    Subject: Re: Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking is disabled or powered off?

    Mr. Man-wai Chang <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

    Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking (both wirelss and
    wired) is disabled or powered off?

    I am wondering.... :)

    As Alan says, test it out yourself!

    But why would you want to Shut down anyway!? Ever heard of Sleep and Hibernate?

    *Restart* is sometimes needed/wanted, but you said "shut down".

    As I mentioned before, I hardly ever do a Shut down - why would I? -
    and do a Restart only once per month (at Windows Update time) or less.
    So who *cares* how 'long' either operation takes!?

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  • From ...w¡ñ?±?ñ@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, January 18, 2026 20:40:22
    Subject: Re: Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking is disabled or powered off?

    Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote on 1/18/2026 8:25 AM:

    Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking (both wirelss and
    wired) is disabled or powered off?

    I am wondering.... :)

    If nothing is open and running in the o/s(Windows features and apps[MST
    and 3rd party]) no benefit(shorter shutdown time) exists by disabling or powering off wired or wireless connections.


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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 00:08:06
    Subject: Re: Will Windows 10 shut down faster if all networking is disabled or powered off?

    On 19/1/2026 10:56 pm, Maria Sophia wrote:

    This is not really related directly, but the script below is what I use
    when I feel like joining a network given I boot up off the network by
    design (for a whole bunch of reasons, one of which was my machine was
    booting slowly after Microsoft updates so I didn't want the network on).

    Thanks!!


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