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What stupidly easy tech solution do people gloss over all of the time? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Thank you, this will save my monday morning restart after a weekend of ~~off~~ 'hibernation'

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Here's an even easier hack than all of that :effort:

Just hold the power button down for about 10 seconds, ez-pz

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I prefer yanking the cord out while furmark, prime95 and a full delete 0 write on the spinning disks is going.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like to call that the "putting a pillow over its face" method of rebooting. Reserved for when even a shutdown /r /t 0 doesn't work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Throw a /f in there for good measure.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Press windows D to go to desktop and press alt F4 until you get the shutdown menu.