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Yea, I don't mean holding it down, I clarified that in my last post; I never do that! What I'm talking about is just pressing and releasing the button... go ahead and try this... it is a perfectly normal way of shutting down a PC; it worked without issue for years under win7 and Vista. ...in...

Can I Just clarify, I don't mean holding the power button down, just quick press.

I have for a long time, used the chassis's power button to shut computers down; there's nothing wrong with that, Windows has be designed to do this for a long time. What I've noticed though, is that every time I use the power button, I get a critical error in event viewer: Event ID: 41...

Many Thanks, indeed the latest definitions file does fix the issue...I wonder why Microsoft isn't pushing it out already!?

For me it's both.

I can only suggest using a third party anti-virus i.e. AVG or Avast... Hopefully it'll get fixed sharpish!

Apparently Microsoft are onto it: My window defender wont scan my computer!! - Microsoft Community

Just chiming in to say I've got the same issue, was very worried before I found this thread!