R2017 and Windows 7 shutdown hiccup

In Windows 7, 2017 won't shut down using "quit", "exit" command line commands or clicking the red "x". I have to use the task manager. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

quit and exit will not work if there is background computation going in another thread, such as started with a timer, or if fplot() is processing a complicated plot in the background (fplot works in the background in the last few releases.)

This might not be what is happening to you: programs just sometimes get stuck (especially if you have graphics drivers problems or if you are running buggy mex or DLL.)

A few months ago I opened a service case pointing out that the life demo keeps running if you quit or exit MATLAB (it has an infinite loop inside a callback.) If you want to create a similar complaint you could refer to my case 02650344.