Patch Tuesday update makes Windows PCs refuse to shut down
www.theregister.com
: Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug

“On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete.”

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    9·
    13 hours ago

    With modern UEFI, it’s controlled by both the OS and the UEFI

    I haven’t used Windows in a long while, but there is a setting in KDE that allowed me to disable the power button’s short press function and I think the long press as well.

    Came in handy for me when my cat decided to start laying on top of my tower. Every now and then she’d decide to slap her paw down on the power button and abort whatever I was working on.

    I was cursing the change away from mechanical toggle, and that button’s position on the top of the case, when she started doing that.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      12 hours ago

      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard

      molly-guard

      A physical barrier to protect something from unwanted contact, especially a shield to prevent accidental tripping of an emergency shutdown or power switch.

      There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator’s shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.

      Etymology

      From Molly (female given name) + guard.

      Originally a Plexiglas cover improvised for the Big Red Switch on an IBM 4341 mainframe after a programmer’s toddler daughter (named Molly) tripped it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.

      E.g.

      https://www.amazon.com/SJZBIN-Dustproof-Protector-Computer-Desktop/dp/B0C4DVCWN6

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          No problem; I remember being delighted to learn that there was a name for the thing, years back.

          Also, one other comment regarding the “change away from mechanical toggle”. If you got the machine pre-built, you may never have noticed this, but on ATX motherboards, there’s a set of pins which you fit the power and reset switch wires onto.

          I mean, you can plug whatever you feel like onto those pins and stick your power and reset buttons wherever you feel like, if you don’t like the position of the existing case switch. It’s just a momentary switch. You can grab replacement ones that aren’t built into a case:

          https://www.amazon.com/Warmstor-2-Pack-Computer-Supply-27-inch/dp/B074XDTVN1

          Or even just get your own switches and connect the plug and wires to whatever sort of momentary switch you want. Amazon or Mouser or DigiKey will have all sorts of momentary switches.

      • LlilL@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        11 hours ago

        SJZBIN 2PCS 22mm Power Push Button Switch Cover Dustproof Safety Power Push Button Switch Cover Protector for Power Push Button Switch Computer PC Desktop, Black

        What a name of a product.