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Shut Down Your Computer
Figure 1-13: The menu used to turn off or restart
your computer
Don’t simply turn off your computer at the power source unless you
have to because of a computer dysfunction. Windows might not start up
properly the next time you turn it on if you don’t follow the proper
shutdown procedure.
Shut Down Your Computer
1. Choose Start and then click the arrow to the right of the
Shut Down button.
2. In the resulting shortcut menu, shown in Figure 1-13,
choose Hibernate to shut down the computer com-
pletely; if you want to reboot (turn off and turn back on)
your computer, choose Restart.
If you’re going away for a while but don’t want to have to go
through the whole booting up sequence complete with Windows 7
music when you return, you don’t have to turn off your computer.
Just click the Sleep command instead (in Step 2) to put your com-
puter into a kind of sleeping state where the screen goes black and
the fan shuts down. When you get back, just click your mouse but-
ton or press Enter, or in some cases (especially on some laptops),
press the Power button; your computer springs to life, and whatever
programs and documents you had open are still open.
If your computer freezes up for some reason, you can turn it off in
a couple of ways. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete twice in a row, or press the
power button on your CPU and hold it until the computer shuts
down.
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