The message "Program Manager is still running" pops up on Windows 10, 1909 when shutting down. Since I never saw the words "Program Manager" used in WIndows, I scanned with Windows Defender, and Malwarebytes and both report everything is clean.
I have seen this once or twice.. and it has been noted without good resolution from what I've seen on the web and raised with MS.
E.g.
MS, you're not bearing all! Come clean about Program Manager in Win10! | Windows 10 Forums
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...a503674?page=5
Fred Langa | Why Does Program Manager Prevent Me From Shutting Down? | IT Pro
Seems to indicate it's triggered by the presence of some 3rd party program or driver.
More: Google
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Thanks for the links. This is not a big issue because the error is intermittent. Though, I was surprised that Windows 10 has a Program Manager. I searched using "Everything" but found nothing. There are two apps which run continuously. "Simple DNScrypt" as the DNS server and Google sync updater. Both of which I will terminate before shutting down to see if it helps.
Otherwise, as mentioned, I only use Windows anti-virus software, & firewall + Malwarebytes which is activated manually and unloaded after it is completes the scan.
I don't believe it's a real process/file etc but perhaps some buried legacy message in the code.
While fiddling with this, I remembered that this was an issue with Google Sync in Windows 7 as well. Both OS continue to shut down after a pause. Posted about it in Google groups then but I don't think they can do anything about it.
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