Trick: Restart only Windows, not your Computer
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkSaturday, March 28, 2009
Installed a new software in Windows - need a restart?
Your Windows is acting slow and you want to go for a restart.
So what are you waiting for? just click on the button to restart the machine… err not quite. You needn’t restart your machine to restart your Windows. You heard me right. How on earth is it possible! Well, here lies the difference between a warm boot (for the machine)and a cold boot (for only Windows).
The trick is very simple. Annoyingly so.
Just hold the Shift key and click on Restart. Works for XP, Vista, Windows 7 et al.
Happy?
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June 28, 2009: 6:44 am
You have used the terminology incorrectly. A cold boot refers to starting the computer from a power-off, or cold state (not counting sleep or standby mode). Warm-boot means that the power stays on. Therefore, both of the methods you described are warm boot. |
 Abhinav |
May 16, 2009: 9:05 pm
It only works in DOS-based Windows viz Windows 95/98 |
Warm Boot