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thanks for watching Techquickie click the subscribe button then enable

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notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos turning

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something off is usually pretty simple rotate the key flick the switch or burp

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the garlic pizza you just ate directly into the face of your hot date but for

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some reason turning off your computer is this complicated ordeal I mean arguably

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it isn't difficult to click start then

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shut down or just tap the button on your

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chassis but instead of turning off instantly your PC always goes through

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some kind of rigmarole that can last for minutes before it finally powers down

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well hold on a minute Linus why can't I

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just hold the button for five seconds or flip the switch at the back to force an

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instant shutdown well it turns out that

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there is a method to the madness you see

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when you click that shutdown button your

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computer goes through a series of steps that are primarily designed to protect

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your data killing the power abruptly

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while you have unsaved work on your screen means that that work is probably

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lost for good and even though some modern programs have autosave features

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they are far from perfect so one of the

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delays you might encounter is the PC prompting you to save anything that you

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might have open like a Word document or an image that you're editing but there

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are also less evident things going on in the background chief among these is that

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your operating system sends signals to running programs and services that it's

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time to power down so it tells these

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programs to wrap up whatever it is they're doing kind of like a parent

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trying to get their hyperactive kids to lie down for the evening this is

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important because these programs and services may be in the middle of writing

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data to your disk and this could be anything from a program update to a file

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download to a registry key being modified so there's a common theme here

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then you the very real risk of data

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corruption if you just power off your computer without warning it's a little

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bit like yanking a cake out of the oven before checking if it's done just like

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that cake might not be anything that you'd want to eat the half-written data

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might not be anything that your computer can actually use and because of the way

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that some computer drives and file systems work you can learn more about

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those up here you might not only corrupt whatever data was being written at the

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time of power down you might also damage other files that are in a cache or a

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nearby physical location on your device

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fortunately the file system used by modern versions of Windows called NTFS

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has a feature called journaling essentially that means that it keeps a

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log of data changes to reduce the risk of corruption however problems can still

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occur if you don't shut your computer off properly hence the disk check

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messages that you sometimes get when powering your system back on after a

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power outage or similar bringing us to

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one of the biggest reasons that people force a system reset system updates that

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seemed to take an eternity when you just need to wrap up some work

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and go to sleep well there is a reason

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that your screen explicitly tells you not to turn off the power during a

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typical power loss you're likely to lose a little bit of unsaved work but turning

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off your PC during an update can result

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in problems that will prevent the system from even booting backup such as

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corrupted half-written registry files or system files so I would even suggest

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that plugging your computer into a UPS or making sure that you have a fully

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charged laptop battery during updates isn't a bad idea

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basically the moral of the story is that unless your computer is hopelessly

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frozen and you have no choice but to completely kill the power make sure you

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turn your system off properly it may take a little more time but trust me

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it's a lot easier than having to reinstall Windows or try to recover a

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savegame that you've dumped 500 hours into

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really that's funny Dennis do you think that's funny you often find

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yourself trying to control two computers at once and getting confused like which

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keyboard and which Mouse goes with which well synergy is the solution for you

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having two or more keyboards and mice you see with synergy you can share just

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