Re: Windows 8 won't shut down after SyncBackSE runs

Only by running a shorter profile (or, fewer profiles) on shutdown. Windows 8 appears to silently abandon its intention to shut down (end session) if a program does not end when instructed, sends a 'hold on, still busy' signal (which we do) and then does not close within some time limit MS are keeping to themselves. Naturally this is not documented (or so I'm told)

There is a possible workaround which is to

1. create a shortcut to the profile (or Group) - drag it to the Desktop to create one
2. right-click shortcut > Properties > edit the command-line to include the CLI -shutdown switch (with an intervening space), e.g.
   
   "C:\the path\to...\SyncBackSE.exe" "My Group Or Profile Name" -shutdown
   
   
3. Then, instead of shutting down the PC manually, double-click the shortcut, which will run your profile/s and shut down the PC for you afterwards.

Note that this opens, uses and (obviously) closes a separate instance of SE to do so, which means you do not actually need to have a copy of SE open in the background. Of course, if you do keep a copy of SE open, you should disable the profile/group from running on shutdown, or that instance of SE will likely try to run them again when the shutdown is invoked externally by the shortcut switch

You could also assign a hot-key combo (in Windows) to the shortcut if you wanted