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- Thread starter WJK0817
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if you just pushed the button it wont harm a thing, modern motherboards use something called ACPI , basicly when you just touch the button >4 seconeds then the bios send the same signal to the OS that calling shutdown from the start menu dose, minuse a few switches, i beleave becuase of xp's fast user switching capability, and network server logon, it assumes your always loged onto a server even if the server is local, and calling it from the start menu will log you out befor shuting down, where as hitting the power button, simply dosent log you off the server (if you where loged on, even local machine) where as the power button will kill local programs and the kernal process, but skip the logout for a faster shutdown, leaveing the server to time out and assume the droped connection on its own
im shure there are a few other things going on during shutdown that need to be killed but i know network and local host logon are the big ones that are shut off (correctly) from the start menu
now if your hitting the power button for <4 secs its a hard off, if the pc is hardlocked usually it will do no harm because there is no disk access while the process is stuck, if the pc isnt hardlock but just a program is locked, then you risk haveing some stuff screwed up, depends on what was going on, if the pc wasnt locked at all, then chances are every thing will be left where it needed to be left (as was mentioned above NTFS is good about that) and no harm will come to it, thought it isnt the best way to shut off the pc, and should only be used in extream situations... (and if its that extream, you might as well pull the plug)
google acpi, it will answer any further questions you may have
thore
im shure there are a few other things going on during shutdown that need to be killed but i know network and local host logon are the big ones that are shut off (correctly) from the start menu
now if your hitting the power button for <4 secs its a hard off, if the pc is hardlocked usually it will do no harm because there is no disk access while the process is stuck, if the pc isnt hardlock but just a program is locked, then you risk haveing some stuff screwed up, depends on what was going on, if the pc wasnt locked at all, then chances are every thing will be left where it needed to be left (as was mentioned above NTFS is good about that) and no harm will come to it, thought it isnt the best way to shut off the pc, and should only be used in extream situations... (and if its that extream, you might as well pull the plug)
google acpi, it will answer any further questions you may have
thore