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Sure, if you turned it off too early the files were corrupted. The safe thing was to exit Windows 3.x to the DOS prompt and only turn off the computer then. But
by andix 2y ago
Sure, if you turned it off too early the files were corrupted. The safe thing was to exit Windows 3.x to the DOS prompt and only turn off the computer then. But it wasn't really required.
- 1970-01-01 2y agoEveryone I knew would fallback to DOS before throwing the big red power switch else risk suffering a day of work or worse being corrupt tomorrow morning.
- andix 2y agoEdit: the windows 3.1 manual "recommends" exiting windows before turning off the PC. It doesn't say it's "required". And with 386 mode, windows actually did do disk IO, including caching. Probably a lot of people did exit windows 3.x before powering off the computer. I actually don't think it was required. Windows 3.x was just a shell on top of DOS and didn't do any IO caching. Saving files or closing all applications should've been safe enough.