Is my computer at risk of any failure if I continue to force shutdown?
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Is my computer at risk of any failure if I continue to force shutdown?
Though a forced shutdown is unlikely to damage your computer in most circumstances, there are still other problems that can occur. Many computers have an auto-recovery option in the event of power outage, you should be proactive in regularly saving copies of your work. Furthermore, the problems which cause you to perform a forced shutdown may be related to the slow decline of your hard drive. Be sure you’re also regularly backing your documents up to an external source, such as a cloud service or external hard drive.
The only and better way to properly shut down a system is to go through the start menu, that way, you know the programming running in the background. When you forcefully shut down a computer, it can corrupt some of your system files/software. However, if your laptop is freezing very often, there might be something wrong with it. I wouldn’t focus too much on whether it’s bad to shutdown your computer forcefully, but rather why your laptop is freezing in the first place.