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Win8 Upgrade problem
Hi, Winston.
After I shut down all my open apps (and be sure that grandson Charlie is logged out of his account), I just press the hardware Power button. As soon as I see that my screen is going blank, I hit the power buttons on my monitor and speakers. Takes less than 15 seconds, usually, and sometimes just 5 seconds. Since I've always preferred to start with a clean slate each morning, rather than return to yesterday's desktop clutter, this works very well for me. (And since I finally learned a year or two ago, thanks to some Usenet thread, that the Power button can be set to do an orderly Shutdown, exactly as if I had used Win7's Start/Shut Down or Win8's Settings/Power/Shut Down sequence.) ;) RC -- -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3505.0912) in Win8 "..winston" wrote in message ... "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message ... Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down (I did manage,but it took 198 clicks of the mouse). Other routes to shutdown From the Start Screen - click your user profile picture, sign out, click the shut down icon lower right, shutdown From the Desktop - Alt F4 Shutdown - same route as above from the picture |
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RC,
That's always an option for many pc's and has been for quite some time and worthy of use when Windows Power options (if necessary) are configured to do so. I use that approach on Win7 and Win8 but hesitate to recommend it as you've explained since it usually requires some level of qualification if other applications or files are still open prior to use. Personally, the number of clicks to shutdown or restart has never been a concern of mine on any o/s g. -- ....winston msft mvp "R. C. White" wrote in message news Hi, Winston. After I shut down all my open apps (and be sure that grandson Charlie is logged out of his account), I just press the hardware Power button. As soon as I see that my screen is going blank, I hit the power buttons on my monitor and speakers. Takes less than 15 seconds, usually, and sometimes just 5 seconds. Since I've always preferred to start with a clean slate each morning, rather than return to yesterday's desktop clutter, this works very well for me. (And since I finally learned a year or two ago, thanks to some Usenet thread, that the Power button can be set to do an orderly Shutdown, exactly as if I had used Win7's Start/Shut Down or Win8's Settings/Power/Shut Down sequence.) ;) RC -- -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3505.0912) in Win8 "..winston" wrote in message ... "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message ... Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down (I did manage,but it took 198 clicks of the mouse). Other routes to shutdown From the Start Screen - click your user profile picture, sign out, click the shut down icon lower right, shutdown From the Desktop - Alt F4 Shutdown - same route as above from the picture |
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"..winston" écrivait news:k74dd8$r2r$1@dont-
email.me: "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message ... Now if only I could figure out how to shut Windows 8 down (I did manage,but it took 198 clicks of the mouse). Other routes to shutdown From the Start Screen - click your user profile picture, sign out, click the shut down icon lower right, shutdown From the Desktop - Alt F4 Shutdown - same route as above from the picture I've installed Win8Pro last thursday (upgraded over a working installation of Win7Pro). I looked for a while how to shut down Win8 and once I've found out I decided to use the ALT-F4|ENTER method from the desktop, I find it to be the fastest way. |
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