Dear Geek,
When shutting off my computer at the end of the day. Regardless of closing all my programs prior to choosing “shut down”, I always get the message asking me if I want to “force” the computer to close a program before it shuts down. Why do I keep getting this message when I’ve already closed all the programs?
Forcing Clueless
Dear Clueless,
When you close all the programs you had running, you speed up the shut down, by not having the computer do it for you (and ensuring that you’ve saved all your changes). However, there are ‘applications’ or programs that your computer is running behind-the-scenes, such as malware scanners, etc. When you receive the message asking if you want to “force” a program to close, it simply means that an application (or applications) is taking too long to close, and Windows is simply getting impatient. If you wait and don’t answer, the application will close on it’s own, and your computer will shut down as requested. However, if you’re in a hurry, and don’t want to wait, you can choose to force the applications to close.
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