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something off is usually pretty simple rotate the key flick the switch or burp
the garlic pizza you just ate directly into the face of your hot date but for
some reason turning off your computer is this complicated ordeal I mean arguably
it isn't difficult to click start then
shut down or just tap the button on your
chassis but instead of turning off instantly your PC always goes through
some kind of rigmarole that can last for minutes before it finally powers down
well hold on a minute Linus why can't I
just hold the button for five seconds or flip the switch at the back to force an
instant shutdown well it turns out that
there is a method to the madness you see
when you click that shutdown button your
computer goes through a series of steps that are primarily designed to protect
your data killing the power abruptly
while you have unsaved work on your screen means that that work is probably
lost for good and even though some modern programs have autosave features
they are far from perfect so one of the
delays you might encounter is the PC prompting you to save anything that you
might have open like a Word document or an image that you're editing but there
are also less evident things going on in the background chief among these is that
your operating system sends signals to running programs and services that it's
time to power down so it tells these
programs to wrap up whatever it is they're doing kind of like a parent
trying to get their hyperactive kids to lie down for the evening this is
important because these programs and services may be in the middle of writing
data to your disk and this could be anything from a program update to a file
download to a registry key being modified so there's a common theme here
then you the very real risk of data
corruption if you just power off your computer without warning it's a little
bit like yanking a cake out of the oven before checking if it's done just like
that cake might not be anything that you'd want to eat the half-written data
might not be anything that your computer can actually use and because of the way
that some computer drives and file systems work you can learn more about
those up here you might not only corrupt whatever data was being written at the
time of power down you might also damage other files that are in a cache or a
nearby physical location on your device
fortunately the file system used by modern versions of Windows called NTFS
has a feature called journaling essentially that means that it keeps a
log of data changes to reduce the risk of corruption however problems can still
occur if you don't shut your computer off properly hence the disk check
messages that you sometimes get when powering your system back on after a
power outage or similar bringing us to
one of the biggest reasons that people force a system reset system updates that
seemed to take an eternity when you just need to wrap up some work
and go to sleep well there is a reason
that your screen explicitly tells you not to turn off the power during a
typical power loss you're likely to lose a little bit of unsaved work but turning
off your PC during an update can result
in problems that will prevent the system from even booting backup such as
corrupted half-written registry files or system files so I would even suggest
that plugging your computer into a UPS or making sure that you have a fully
charged laptop battery during updates isn't a bad idea
basically the moral of the story is that unless your computer is hopelessly
frozen and you have no choice but to completely kill the power make sure you
turn your system off properly it may take a little more time but trust me
it's a lot easier than having to reinstall Windows or try to recover a
savegame that you've dumped 500 hours into
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