Baby pushed power button repeatedly

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Newton22

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Exactly what the title reads. My girlfriend's baby nephew pushed the power button repeatedly on my windows desktop computer. I wasn't logged into windows or anything, but I guess he had been doing it for a while before I took him away. I just want to know if this could have harmed my computer in any way and where I should check to see if it is damaged. I turned it on and was able to log into windows. Everything seems to be running fine. I just want to be 100% sure.

Thank you.
 
It shouldn't really. If he was holding it down to power off the PC then you'll lose session state for whatever you were doing or any unsaved files. Otherwise just mashing it repetitively will 'soft' shutdown.
 
If windows was actually booting up during these shutdowns then it could damage windows and or drive itself. You can do this type of shutdown here and there but you don't want to do it continuously as it will cause damage.
 
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