For me it’s the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they’re being spied. Here’s the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won’t use it or haven’t used it in a while.
They, whoever it is, can’t really spy on you on something that’s already off and unplugged!
Rebooting your PC really does fix a lot of issues.
But in Windows, you have to go to a sub-sub-sub-menu of the old control panel, click on a button called “choose what closing the lid does”, then on “change settings that are currently unavailable” and then disable “fast startup (recommended)”, just to get your pc to reboot properly.
Hold shift while you click start and shutdown (or reboot) when necessary. This will have windows do a full shutdown instead of a hybrid shutdown.
Thank you, this will save my monday morning restart after a weekend of
off‘hibernation’Press windows D to go to desktop and press alt F4 until you get the shutdown menu.
Here’s an even easier hack than all of that :effort:
Just hold the power button down for about 10 seconds, ez-pz
I like to call that the “putting a pillow over its face” method of rebooting. Reserved for when even a
shutdown /r /t 0doesn’t workThrow a /f in there for good measure.
I prefer yanking the cord out while furmark, prime95 and a full delete 0 write on the spinning disks is going.