How to Properly Shut Down a Surface Laptop

There are many ways to shut down or turn off your Surface Laptop when you finished your work and you want to make sure that your laptop is completely turned off without draining more battery. It’s also a good idea to restart your laptop once a week to make sure your laptop can install any pending updates and refresh your system memory to improve your laptop’s performance.

Today we will show you the two common methods to properly shut down your Surface Laptop:

Table of contents

1. Why do you need to properly shut down your Surface Laptop?
2. How to shut down your Surface Laptop via Start Menu?
3. How to shut down your Surface Laptop via Power Button?

1Why do you need to properly shut down your Surface Laptop?

Here are several reasons that you will need to properly shut down your :

1. Apply and install all pending firmware, drivers, and Windows updates.
2. Refresh your laptop’s system resources for faster performance.
3. Preventing battery drain issues.
4. Preventing device from overheating when keeping in the bag.

2How to shut down your Surface Laptop via Start Menu?

To shut down your Surface Laptop via Start Menu, do the following:

1. Select the Start icon on the bottom left of the screen.
2. Select the Power button next to the start menu.
3. Select the “Shut down” button from the pop-up list.

3How to shut down your Surface Laptop via Power Button?

Every Surface device has a power button and you can shut down your Surface Laptop via the power button too. To do so:

Power Button location on Surface Laptop 1-5

Power Button location on Surface Laptop Studio

Power Button location on Surface Laptop Go 1-2

Power Button location on Surface Laptop SE

1. Press and hold the Power button (about 3s).
2. Wait until you see the message “Slide to shut down your PC”.
   
   
3. Use your finger to slide the lock screen down to shut down your device
4. Or use your mouse pointer to click, hold, and move the lock screen down to shut down your device.