🚀 go-pugleaf

Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <85qjgr$73h$2@quince.news.easynet.net>,
> Trevor Best <trevor@easynet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >BTW, in a car, isn't the starter also the same switch to turn it off?
> >everyone who complains about this aspect of Windows, haven't you ever
driven
> >car? operated a light switch? ran a bath? turned a telly on and off? All
> >toggle switches, i.e. the start is also the stop. I think the shutdown
> >option in Windows is in the logical place, if they put it elsewhere then
> >your average user probably wouldn't find it.
>
> This argument - that it's right that you use the start menu to switch
> off the computer because it's usual to use the same thing to turn
> something off and on - would make a lot more sense if you did in fact
> use the start menu to start the computer.
>
> But you don't.
>
> Is there *anything* in MS Windows that you both start and stop with the
> start menu?

The "menu" itself is started and stopped with the start button.

Perhaps you would like MS give you a "Stop" button, or make you some cocoa
before you go to bed and tuck you in at night.

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