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I wonder how many people will see this and not know what it is based off
I wonder if there’s a way to replace the “these programs are preventing your computer from shutting down” with this image. The legit one, preferably lol
I know you can change the images in Windows 95 so you could replace the proper one with this. I suspect the messages in Windows 10/11 are a bit more sophisticated though!
I’m not sure, do enlighten me
Old PCs couldn’t switch themselves off, so they stopped the operating system and asked the user to cut the power. This image is in the style of the Windows 95 shut down screen.
Holy, that’s so cool
My immediate thought too. No one under 25 at least, and I feel like that’s being generous.
I’m way under 25 and I get this. Those days before ACPI
28 and I remember the ancient text. I remember having to unlearn this shit later that it’s totally okay to hard shutdown a PC and you won’t brick it by doing that.
What kind of a PC do you have where you can just do a hard shutdown?
Doing that on any regular system can totally screw up stuff. Unless you are running some sort of funky read only system, or one of those fake write systems, a hard shutdown is a bad idea.
Also with modern hardware it’s less of an issue, but with anything with moving parts, shutting it down properly can make sure those parts aren’t moving any more and secured for transportation for example. I remember back in the DOS era, we used to park our heads before shutting down the PC.
I’ve been slamming the power button for decades and it’s never been an issue. Anything even remotely modern will have storage drivers that mitigate the risks.
Well what do you mean by slamming the power button? Because I understand a hard shutdown to be turning off the power or holding the power button till the power turns off.
Just pressing the on/off button is the same as selecting shutdown from the menu, that’s properly shutting down the pc and not a hard shutdown.
Shutting the power off can fuck up a system pretty bad. Nothing much a driver can do about that, everything in flight is lost.
Back in the day (pre ATX) the power button actually turned the power off. That’s where the screen from the post comes from. When you used to shut down Windows, it couldn’t turn the power off itself, so it showed this screen so you could turn the power off yourself.
Guillotine switch for power.
Man on any modern PC you can yank the power cord out of the wall and you are not likely to do any permanent damage. Not that you should do it, but it likely won’t hurt.
As someone who works with industrial PCs that rely on UPSs, whose batteries often go bad, to properly shut down, let me tell you, windows DOESN’T appreciate that sort of treatment, after a while data corruption adds up and the system is fucked.
Well no, not permanent damage. I don’t think there were ever any PCs where dropping the power could permanently damage your PC. What can happen is you screw up your data, either just your personal files or something in the OS. This can easily cause your computer to simply not boot. Depending on the issue, this can be fixed easily, or can require an entire restore/reinstall. Now modern Windows is pretty good with detecting and repairing that shit, but still, it’s not something you’d ever want to have happen.
But pushing the button isn’t a hard shutdown, that’s just how you tell the computer to go do it’s shutdown thing. That’s not a hard shutdown at all, that’s a regular vanilla shutdown.
With old shit, when hard drives had moving parts and didn’t auto park their heads, not parking before turning it off and then moving the system could absolutely crash the head destroying the disk. Even that isn’t like permanent damage to the PC, because you could simply replace the drive, but still. But we’re talking 80s and early 90s, after that the default state was parked and the drive had to move it to an unparked state.
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24 and I didn’t recognize it.
The title 😄
The image 💀
You cannot rest when there are enemies nearby
It might as well say that when it comes up with the “can’t shut down because of these programs not responding:” thing.
Oh no! The Grues!
I can relate, when I was very young and had Windows 98, and it was dark in the house, the real message spooked me a lot
you ams the monsters
And then John was a zombie.
