What Happens If You Don't Shut Down Your Computer Properly?

What's the difference between clicking "Shut Down" and just pulling your computer's power cord out of the wall?

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Intro Theme: Showdown by F.O.O.L from Monstercat - Best of 2016

[sriramramesh]

legend has it that if you don't shut down your computer, it is probably on.

[SethMacMillan]

I feel a great need to send this to some of my company's clients. At one point, they pulled the plug on their server because it'd locked up.

[marenecarstens]

Me: Force power off PC for the first time
5 minutes later
Youtube Recommendation: You shouldn't do that....

[alexuu]

Once i forced shut down my PC when it was updating.

I had to reinstall Windows :(

[teslapower]

Anyone remember "It is now safe to turn off your computer."?

[chaosfire]

1:51 To continue Linus' analogy:

Shutting down the computer properly is a parent telling a kid to go to sleep. Pressing the power button is knocking them out with a baseball bat. Will turn everything off either way, but one leaves some brain-I mean, system damage.

[windowsdowndate]

4:40 Look how his hairstyle changes for the sponsor

[theweirdguy]

Don't worry, I see a blue light at the end of the Tunnel.

*Blue Screens*

[juliangaming]

Me: pulls out the plug
Blue screen: allow me to introduce myself

[draugnaustaunikunhymnphoo]

Yeah, my parents grinded this into me. It pissed me off so much that so many other students at school just press the force-off button. The only time I turn off my computer by removing its power is if a game crashes, and I can't go to my desktop or close the app. The absolutely last choice.

[riazmiah]

A parent trying to put their hyperactive kids to sleep

Good luck with that

[gamemasterp]

I have lost many minecraft singleplayer games this

[cyndll]

Me: hasn't saved in 5 hours
My cat: Hippity hoppity, your power button is now my property

[Mike]

I had a lady who kept turning the computer off by holding the button despite scolding her about it. She eventually killed the hard drive and wanted me to fix it again. I gave her the out of warranty cost due to negligence. This pissed her off and she called the warranty company on me. They called me and took my side.

[codex]

I once turned off my computer while it's updating, and that's where I learned my lesson

[badassshadow]

Simple explanation for those who dont get it: if you force a pc shutdown, it might or may have a chance on running chkdsk. If you force a shutdown on a pc while updates, your going to risk system files to be corrupted. Save your unsaved files but dont force a shutdown

[marcusturkijevic]

Imagine getting an ad with Linus in it right before you watch a video that Linus takes part in. Pffhh

[johnnguyen]

Not to mention: shutting it down improperly also increases load time the next time you turn on the PC.

Edit: **SOME** of the time. It also depends on what OS, storage and memory you have.

[mudgie]

YOU THINK THAT’S F***ING FUNNY, DENNIS?!

[gonnamakeutremble]

If you can’t be bothered waiting for an update you can just press Ctrl+alt+delete and select shutdown without installing updates:)