Power Button Question

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I mistakenly pushed the computer's power button and shut off the computer
while defragmenting the hard drive (it was in screen saver mode at the time
but I thought it was in standby). Did this hurt anything?

What is the difference between using the power off button, and using Turn
Off Computer from the Start menu?

thanks! Kevin
 
I mistakenly pushed the computer's power button and shut off the computer
while defragmenting the hard drive (it was in screen saver mode at the time
but I thought it was in standby). Did this hurt anything?

What is the difference between using the power off button, and using Turn
Off Computer from the Start menu?
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Some power buttons do a shut-down like the start button, some are a
hard-shutdown and just remove power. When you remove power without a
proper shut-down you risk the loss of any DATA that was being written -
and if that data was a part of a file, you risk the loss of that file.

If you have a system that when you press the power button, the computer
shows Shutting Down.... Then it's fine to press it (just long enough to
get that started, holding it in for more than 4 seconds is a hard power
down and is not good).
 
One is a graceful shutdown. The other is essentially a system "crash". Do it
frequently enough and you "will" have problems eventually.

Shutdown from the Start Button.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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