> Retrospectively I suspect confusion around what it means to shut down or restart a computer led to many of the reports of reboots/shutdowns/driving into the o

> Retrospectively I suspect confusion around what it means to shut down or restart a computer led to many of the reports of reboots/shutdowns/driving into the office fixing the problem or not [...] I read somewhere (I think it was a post on /r/sysadmin) that, on modern Windows, "shut down" actually means hibernate, so old-school people who learned that it's always better to power down and power back up instead of just rebooting (since it also restarts the hardware, not only the software) are led astray: on modern Windows, it's the opposite, "restart" is the option which does a clean start-up, while "shut down" just fakes it. Edit: it was this post and its comments: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/qiqigu/when_i_ask_did_you_turn_it_off_and_on_again_and/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/qiqigu/when_i_ask...