• Godort@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I tend to just check uptime before asking this question.

    If I see the machine has been up for weeks and they tell me they rebooted it, I know i’m dealing with someone who doesn’t know that pressing the power button on the monitor doesn’t turn the computer off.

    • I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 months ago

      Could also be windows fault.

      It likes to do soft restarts and not actually restart.

      I started telling my users to always hold shift when shutting down or restarting to make sure it shuts down fully.

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        4 months ago

        AFAIK fast startup only affects shutdown, clicking restart will always do a full reboot. Shift clicking shutdown will do a full shutdown like you said, but shift clicking restart will start recovery mode.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t even bother checking. I tell them I’m going to do something on my side that might cause their computer to reboot and then reboot it remotely.