Can't shutdown

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 01:36:35 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 01:08 +0000, ms wrote:
> On 12/12/10 20:46, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>  wrote:
> >>
> >> No, I just looked and quickstarter is not checked.  I did have
> >> OpenOffice Calc open for quite some time though before I tried to shutdown.
> >>
> > If the shutdown is of your own contrivance, I strongly recommend
> > killing all your windows before issuing the shutdown.
> >
> 
> Why?

A normal shutdown does that. Shuts things down cleanly. A false-normal
shutdown may not. Ric


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