Do NOT Shut Down Your Computer! (here’s why)

By rjoachim | November 10, 2022
forcibly shut down your computer, when you have unsaved work in progress, that work will probably disappear forever. Some modern programs have automatic saving features, but unfortunately these are far from perfect. So one thing that you may experience when trying One of these things is that your operating system sends signals to the programs that are running that they should shut down. It’s a bit like a parent telling their kids to got to bed in the evening. This is important because these programs can be in the middle of sending data to your disk. It can be anything from a file download to a software update.
If you forcefully shut down your computer, you run the risk of getting corrupt or broken data on your hard drive. And corrupt data can be something your computer simply can’t use. In addition to damaging the files that were being written, other files that are in a cache or which are physically located on the disk can be damaged by this corrupted data.ng to turn off your computer is that your computer asks you to save everything that is left unsaved.We have probably all seen the clear instructions when making an update that you should NOT turn off the computer. And there is a reason why it is so important. If you forcibly shut down your computer in normal use, the result is often no worse than losing some unsaved work. However, turning off your computer during an update can cause problems that prevent the system from restarting, at all.
So to sum it all up, as long as your computer is not hopelessly frozen and there is no hope that it will come to life, then you should avoid a forced shut-down of your computer. Shut down your computer the right way, it may take a few extra minutes but in the end it is easier to reinstall an entire operating system.
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