CUBASE never shuts down

[ClendeningSound]

Have a look at this thread:

Cubase Won't Close After You Exit The Project

Hi there, I’ve been having this problem quite frequently since 10.5 (then on 11) on my Win 10 DAW. It even got to a point where I had tried pretty much ALL the tricks listed in this thread… turn off the hub, etc. The taskkill commands weren’t doing anything for me and the cubase.exe would even prevent my computer from shutting down properly (I had to force it to shut down). About two weeks ago I did a delete/refresh of the user preferences, which seemed to help for a little while but then the bu…