User Guide

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Getting Started
To Shut down your computer
To Shut down your computer
1 Press the Windows
®
( ) key to display the Start
screen.
Pressing the power button before shutting down the
Windows
®
operating system could cause you to lose
your work. Make sure the system indicator panel’s
storage drive light and the drive in-use light are off. If you
turn off the power while a disk/disc is being accessed,
you may lose data or damage the disk/disc and/or drive.
2 Click or touch the
Power ( ) icon at the upper-right
corner of the screen.
(Sample Image) Shut down
To perform a Hybrid shut down, (instead of performing a
Shut down), click or touch the
Shut down option but do
NOT hold the Shift key.
3 Highlight
Shut down while holding the Shift key, and
then click or touch the
Shut down option.
The computer closes all open applications, shuts down
the operating system, and then turns off.
Shut down option
NOTE