"Shut Down Windows" message box keeps popping up periodically


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I just installed W11 last Friday.

The below window keeps popping up periodically and unexpectedly. I don't know if it's some keyboard combination that I'm unknowingly hitting or if it's just random, but I can't figure out how to stop it from popping up.

Shutdown message.png
 
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That shows up using ALT+F4 combination.
 

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Fabler2 said:
That shows up using ALT+F4 combination.
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I'm pretty sure I'm not using that key combination - especially not as much as that window keeps popping up! It seems to only happen when I am playing a particular game.

Is there any way to change, customize or disable that combination?
 

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mercury_1967 said:
I'm pretty sure I'm not using that key combination - especially not as much as that window keeps popping up! It seems to only happen when I am playing a particular game.

Is there any way to change, customize or disable that combination?
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Just a guess, maybe that game has keys configurations that's doing it?
 

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Fabler2 said:
Just a guess, maybe that game has keys configurations that's doing it?
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That's the obvious question, and I'll look into that specifically the next time I play, but off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure I don't use that combo in the course of playing it.
 

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mercury_1967 said:
That's the obvious question, and I'll look into that specifically the next time I play, but off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure I don't use that combo in the course of playing it.
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If you post the name of the game you are playing someone might know what is triggering it.
 

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Winuser said:
If you post the name of the game you are playing someone might know what is triggering it.
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The game is 7 Days to Die, version A20.

Thanks if anyone can help!
 

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Okay. Confirmed: It appears that the window popping up has nothing to do with the game.

I had the computer on for a while this morning - no game. Closed the lid and left it for a while. Came back and the window was there.

Any thoughts?
 

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There has been quite a few reports of that recently, as far as I can tell there is no fix yet. If it were me, I would put it on the feedback hub
 

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The-Hive said:
There has been quite a few reports of that recently, as far as I can tell there is no fix yet. If it were me, I would put it on the feedback hub
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Will do. Thanks!
 

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