My computer keeps updating when shutting down
16-Aug-2020 16:04
When it was ready for you to shut down, you’d see the message “It’s now safe to turn off your computer” on your screen and you’d press the power button to shut it off. When you pressed it, it immediately cut power to the computer’s hardware.Just as you wouldn’t yank a desktop computer’s power cord out of the outlet while it was running today, you wouldn’t press the power button to shut off then.I have gone through nearly everything and I\u0027m still stumped.There is no specific time or application that is common to the shut down.If you did this on Windows 95, your computer would have to run Scan Disk when you booted it back up, attempting to repair all the damage caused by the shut down.When you clicked Shut Down in Windows first, Windows wrapped up everything it was doing, closing all open programs and saving all data to the disk.This is especially useful on Windows 8, where there’s no obvious power button unless you know to look in the charms bar or the hidden Windows Key X menu.But there is a power button — and it’s on your PC’s case.
Bear in mind that this won’t work on any ancient hardware you come across.
Your computer wasn’t doing anything at all when that message appeared on your screen, so it was safe to cut power to it. Instead of suddenly cutting power to the computer, why couldn’t the power button send a signal to the computer’s operating system saying “Hey, it’s time to shut down, finish up what you’re doing” and let the computer shut down intelligently?
And, when you did shut down from the operating system, why did you have to sit at the computer and wait to press the power button once everything was done?
And, when you click Shut Down in Windows, it uses ACPI to send a signal to your computer’s hardware, telling it to cut the power so you don’t have to press the power button by hand.
RELATED: In other words, your computer’s power button is smart enough to do the right thing.It just closes whatever applications are running and say windows is shutting down.