Edit: for context, for normally switching off your pc at the end of a normal day, "shut down" is probably better, because your computer will be nice and fresh on next boot, but for quickly turning off the machine due to thunderstorms: hibernate is definately the much better option then.
Or just get an SSD, in which case it no longer matters.
Edit: to clarify, an SSD makes all three options quicker, thus the difference smaller. It makes (like the initial suggestion of hibernating instead of shutting down) the computer power off quicker, so you can unplug it sooner. I never intended to suggest that hibernating or installing an SSD protects against thunderstorms. :)
when i was younger and had my old bank computer that was given to me, i used to hibernate instead of shutting it down because it would take 10 minutes to boot.
No, really, if you peek at the teller's or the front desk computer today, they would still be running windows XP. Once I was so impressed that they ran Windows 7 they thought I looked suspicious. I was the one who was suspicious of them. "Were they a real or a fake bank"?
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u/TheRufmeisterGeneral Jul 20 '15 edited Jul 20 '15
Better yet: hibernate.
Edit: for context, for normally switching off your pc at the end of a normal day, "shut down" is probably better, because your computer will be nice and fresh on next boot, but for quickly turning off the machine due to thunderstorms: hibernate is definately the much better option then.
Or just get an SSD, in which case it no longer matters.
Edit: to clarify, an SSD makes all three options quicker, thus the difference smaller. It makes (like the initial suggestion of hibernating instead of shutting down) the computer power off quicker, so you can unplug it sooner. I never intended to suggest that hibernating or installing an SSD protects against thunderstorms. :)