philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote
> Soar <soar@tin.it> wrote
>> kony wrote

>>> Hit <CTL><ALT><DEL>, or power cycle it,
>>> or buy a little panel mount switch [..]

>> Many thanks for your interest! Unfortunately, I' m not so
>> experienced in tasks like them! I heard that now many new cabinets
>> are without the reset button and that when we have to reboot the
>> system (for example, in case of crash), we have to push the power
>> button instead of the reset button: is it true? But, in this way,
>> don't we risk damaging the pc?

> Some machines will go into a safe shutdown by pushing the power button...

And that is configurable in XP with most systems too.

You can specify what you want it to do, shutdown, hibernate, sleep etc there.