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If you really want to do the sleeping or shutting down thing using the
onscreen commands, click the at the bottom of the places column of the
Start menu.
As shown in Figure 1-14, shutting down is only one of the options for
finishing your work session. What follows are your others.
Figure 1-14. Shutting down your computer requires only two steps now, rather than 417 (as in
Windows 8).
Open the Start menu. Hit and then “Shut down.”
Sleep
Sleep is great. When the flight attendant hands over your cranberry cocktail,
you can take a quick break without closing all your programs. The instant
you put the computer to sleep, Windows quietly transfers a copy of
everything in memory into an invisible file on the hard drive, keeping it at
the ready with a tiny trickle of battery power.
If you do return soon, everything reappears on the screen faster than you
can say, “Redmond, Washington.” If you don’t return shortly, Windows
eventually cuts power, abandoning what it had memorized in RAM.
