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by zlynx 1826 days ago
I have a Windows virtual machine that was doing this to me a lot, and making Ubuntu reboots take a long time, and then requiring a disk check after the unclean shutdown.

I found a registry key that tells Windows to force stop apps that block shutdown. I may lose an unsaved document once in a while but I would have lost it anyway, and I am pretty good about saving things when necessary.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop AutoEndTasks REG_SZ 1