[GNC] Gnucash cannot obtain the lock

[Adrien Monteleone]

Nothing like an OS getting in the way of what you want to do with your own machine, redefining the meaning of common words, and changing long held paradigms and workflows...

Thanks for the education.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Sep 11, 2019 w37d254, at 10:04 AM, A Harvey <gah1178 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's an article that confirms what Liz said. It also shows how to change
> Windows 10 behavior in this regard.
> 
> https://www.howtogeek.com/349114/shutting-down-doesnt-fully-shut-down-windows-10-but-restarting-it-does/
> 
> -Arthur
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 4:55 AM Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:49:12 -0500
>> Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> It should, but some computers don’t ‘cold’ reboot, this might be the
>>> case if you are using the ‘restart’ option in Windows rather than
>>> ‘Shutdown’ and then pressing the power button to turn it back on.
>>> (and even with pressing the power button to turn off, sometimes, the
>>> darn things just ‘hibernate’ as a convenience.)
>> 
>> I think that Windows 10 only does a full reboot if you choose "restart".
>> I decline to be a Windows expert, and am happy if someone else can
>> comment.
>> 
>> Liz