I don’t know whose idea it was, but Windows 95 added a screen that appeared when you shut down Windows. It’s now safe to turn off your computer. This message was added because people would shut down Windows and then not know what to do next. I witnessed this first hand once. I was on an airplane flight, and the person sitting next to me was trying to turn off a laptop computer, which was running Windows NT. After selecting “Shut down”, the operating system shut itself down, and then it displayed...