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Press the power button on your machine. The same one you used to turn it on.
by mparlane 14y ago
Press the power button on your machine. The same one you used to turn it on.
- Dylan16807 14y agoOkay, take a second to explain this to me. What exactly happens when I press the power button? On almost every laptop I have used the power button puts it to sleep. Are you saying this has changed in windows 8, and it will shut off instead?
- Already__Taken 14y agoYou know you get set what the power button does in power options right? I change all mine to hibernate and closing the screen to do nothing.
- Dylan16807 14y agoSure you can change anything, but the original question was about windows 8 as it ships. So what does the button do?
- ygra 14y agoI think (not sure right now because I always set it to hibernate) it defaults to Sleep on laptops and Shut down on desktop computers.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoIf only it were that simple. When I press the power button it does seemingly random things. Will it sleep? Will it shutdown? Will it hibernate? Will it do nothing? Seems to vary on every PC I sit down at...