To this day, I have the habit of never turning it off with the power button. I was told off for doing it when I was younger despite the computers being xp and perfectly fine to turn off with a power button
XP was still a little twitchy about a hard power-off. I risked it as little as possible. Windows didn’t self repair nearly as well as it does now, registry would corrupt. Still, not like its predecessors!
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To this day, I have the habit of never turning it off with the power button. I was told off for doing it when I was younger despite the computers being xp and perfectly fine to turn off with a power button
XP was still a little twitchy about a hard power-off. I risked it as little as possible. Windows didn’t self repair nearly as well as it does now, registry would corrupt. Still, not like its predecessors!
At this point it wasn’t a hard power off, unless you held it. Just a software button