I am guessing here, but I think forced means machine is not responding anymore, so you either press the powerbutton for 10 secs and or take power / battery out .. Soft would be to stull have the chance to save / quit / close other apps and then just do "restart" .. Then again I could be wrong P on 7/3/03 5:37 AM, Pat D. Stephens at patdart at cox-internet.com wrote: > Would someone tell me the difference of a 'forced reboot' and a 'soft > reboot'? Apple tech taught me to use a soft reboot years ago when > things went wrong...aren't they different things? > > Pat > On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Peter Nacken wrote: > >>> The absolute LAST thing I would do would be to do a forced reboot >>> since >>> this will lose data and may damage files or hard drives. >>> >