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Originally Posted by psicodude
They purposely hid the shutdown/reboot button because the need to perform them just isn't really there anymore. The public has been complaining for years about how long it takes to boot your computer, so Microsoft designed an OS that takes advantage of the power saving features built into every computer for the last 10 years. Waking up from a sleep state takes a couple of seconds, not 30 seconds like a full boot from cold.
That said, however, I still shut my computer down every night. Creature of habit I suppose.
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I'm finding on an SSD the difference between cold boot and wake is not nearly as bad as before, in the range of 10 vs 3 seconds. I have a sleep button on my keyboard which makes things easy, but if you don't have that, there's about 3 clicks or keystrokes to get to the sleep option, which is a bit more than it should be I think. Unless someone knows of a shortcut (without downloading yet more hacks?)