it's not that bloody difficult to comprehend
it's as opposed to a soft, or graceful, shut down.

For example, in older versions of Windows and Office, the OS would remove unused temp files on shutdown. Therefore if you lost loads of work, shutting down gracefully meant it'd be lost forever (or at least be far more difficult to find). By doing a hard reboot, 9 out of 10 times, the document you lost would be there once you opened word/excel etc again.
(likeajackhammer, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 12:07, 1 reply)

Hahahahahahaha
Yeah but it's the twonks that think turning it off and on again being rebranded somehow makes it different or makes them sound more techy or something equally laughable.

He should have just said "Have your tried turning it off and on again?" instead of introducing unnecessary techno-wankology.

Hard re-boot.

Yes. And then I shall initiate the Monitor Viewing Association Technology and investigate whether or not the solutions opportunity has been fully resolved.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 12:25, closed)

I think the point is:
If he'd asked you 'turn it off and on again' what process would you have followed?
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:06, closed)

I'd have, er ... turned it off and on again, like I did when he patronisingly "walked me through it".
FFS. It's a computer, not a 3 year old baby with special dietry requirements.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:25, closed)

By doing what?
There is a difference between hard re-boot and soft re-boot, as detailed above, and they're both legitimate terms.

I'm probably coming across as a bit of a dick now.
( IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 13:30, closed)

no, you're not...
it's perfectly plausible to give two distinct method of turning a PC off differing names.

It's not like an "Emergency Stop" is the same as "Pull over" - both outcomes are a parked car.
(likeajackhammer, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 11:38, closed)