We must be taught not to touch the Power Button of the PC sometime in our lives before.
I always wanted to know the reason why. We must be told mostly that would “spoil” the pc.
Some told me memory would be lost. True becase ram is volatile but would it spoil?.
Some says that would corrupt the OS-operating system. Might true again eg. for *nix systems, but modern os like windows should be able to handle and recover from such incidents.
And it could damage the hardware, that could be likely if electricity is disrupted from those sensitive equiments. But there goes another theory ur life of the pc would depict each time you turn it on and off, so it best to be turn on all times, like your refrigator. Then again, modern hardware should be resistant to such situations.
And it bring me back to the days we were using ms-dos 6.22 and windows 3.11. To “shutdown”, its best we exit windows (to dos), and run the disk park utility. There was 2 popular park “software” my memory leaves an impression. 1 version with a power switch turn off when its ready. another which counts the no. of cylinders before telling you it safe to turn off the pc.
Then those newer version of windows, 95,98 so on would give a “safe to shutdown” screen after you run shutdown.
Then came the newer hardware, once the screen was reached, it power off itself.
On those newer hardware, the reset button could be removed. Pushing the power button resets the pc. To cut the power from the board, the button need to be held for maybe 5 seconds.
So this is the day of the “Soft Power Off”. Some PC would sleep/ suspend once the power button is touch. While for me and many others, its sends a signal perhaps to the pc to power off.
So this is a way how I turn my pc off in windows- pushing the power button, going against the rules of what we received. Its almost like pushing the corner triangle power button on a mac keyboard. And its much logical than clicking “Start” when you want to power off the pc.
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