Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What Happens If You Don’t Shut Down Your Computer Properly?”.
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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 really that’s funny Dennis. Do you think that’s funny, you often find yourself trying to control two computers at once and getting confused like which keyboard and which Mouse goes with which well synergy is the solution for you.
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