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Why do we hold down or press the start button to turn off our computers?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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RabidCupcake12

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Using the "start" button to shut down your computer gives your system a "heads up", if you will, that you are shutting it down. Shutting a computer down abruptly could be destructive to the system if you shut it down in the middle of an important process.

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