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Pressing Shut Down on Windows doesn't actually shut down your PC—and its breaking things

When you click "Shut Down," your screen goes black, and you assume your PC has actually "shut down" in the original sense of the phrase. However, on most modern Windows PCs, that isn't the case. Since ...
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Windows hasn't properly shut down when you click shut down since 2012, and it explains a decade of weird bugs

Last week, while cleaning up my main NVMe SSD via WizTree, I noticed a 12.5-gigabyte file called hiberfil.sys sitting in the C: drive. I wasn't familiar with any system processes that led to its ...