Windows 7: Shutdown + closing laptop lid

Looks like that I'm not the only one with that issue

Closing laptop should NOT hibernate after shutdown has been ordered - Windows 7 Taskforce

Microsoft do all they can to accommodate different user preferences, but they haven't mastered the "...read the user's mind to find out what they want to do this time..." problem.

It is expected to be here by Windows 11, about 4 years after it becomes incorporated it in Winbuntu 20.10

When the laptop is in it's "shutdown" processes, it isn't fully shutdown, so it will register things like a lid closing. It isn't an issue at all...it's doing what it is supposed to do. An OS can't make up for a user's impatience. Trust me, if it could, as an IT Manager, I'd be using that OS for years now. If you can't wait that long and are really that impatient, then follow the above steps for using hibernate. If you want to let your laptop shutdown...let it shutdown. Simple as that. Shutting down takes longer, because it does more and has more processes to do. Simple as that.

It's because your machine is still executing the command to shut off system processes, and the sleep mode, afaik, is read as an "interrupt" command, and orders the system to sleep, regardless of what it's doing at present. I don't there's an actual way to "fix" this, other than being patient.

I suppose you could go for a Solid State Drive, which would improve boot/shutdown times, but it won't by any means solve it.

*sigh*....why not just have it shut down when you close the lid and don't push the button at all?