shutdown on the same menu as log off
Did you know that you're supposed to click on your avatar (instead of the power icon) on the start menu when you're trying to log off or lock the screen?
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No, it not that UPnP itself that is opened on the Internet facing side. It's that some router default to have their web admin interface accessible on the Internet facing side, so they can be easily hacked.
THEN there's the problem that many routers don't properly sanitize UPnP rules which made the reflected attack possible.
"...then waited an age for it to figure out what it's doing? (Even on a modern 8 core "business" laptop)?"
"business" laptops have SHIT CPUs (and even shittier cooling), no matter how many cores they've got. You need a mobile workstation (or at the very least a gaming laptop) to do proper number crunching.