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Raymond Chen's power button timing raises questions among Windows developers

OS News examines Raymond Chen's power-button shutdown account

1 Oct 31 · 11d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 2

OS News publishes an investigation into Raymond Chen's description of Windows power-button behavior, noting that holding the button for 12 seconds forces hardware shutdown, and 8 seconds triggers a kernel dump for error reporting. The author identifies a puzzle: most sources cite 4–5 second motherboard force-shutdown timings, much shorter than Chen's numbers.

“If you hold a PC's power button for 12 seconds, it will turn off at the hardware level without notifying the operating system. This is a safety feature so that you can turn of the computer even if the operating system's "Shut down" command isn't working.”

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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 1 claim were published in its stretch

  1. 1 outlet How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC?

    first by HN Frontpage, 11d ago

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