turning off computer safely

[John Barnett - MVP]

I do one of two things. Either press the reset button to
force the machine to boot again or push the power button.
With the power button you may have to hold the button in
for 4 or 5 seconds (i do with mine) before it actually
turns off.

Hope this helps

John Barnett - MVP
Associate Expert
>-----Original Message-----
>how do you shut off the computer in
>XP when everything is hung up? Basic question, I know,
>but...in Win95, you just did another ctrl-alt-del and the
>machine would switch off. If worse came to worse, you
>pushed the power button and shut it off that way. With
this
>system, that doesn't work - I actually had to UNPLUG the
>machine. There must be a 'safer' way??? Many thanks!
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