Comments on: Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC (Vista or XP) http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/restarting-windows-without-restarting-your-pc-vista-or-xp-2/ Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:58:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kolz Blog » Blog Archive » Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC (Vista or XP) http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/restarting-windows-without-restarting-your-pc-vista-or-xp-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2665 Kolz Blog » Blog Archive » Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC (Vista or XP) Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:36:53 +0000 http://www.thatdamnpc.com/restarting-windows-without-restarting-your-pc-vista-or-xp/#comment-2665 [...] Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC (Vista or XP) August 17th, 2007 by deepchannel Here’s a great tip to shave off a couple of precious seconds when rebooting your pc: “A modern PC with Vista Home Edition takes about one and a half minutes to boot. An older machine with XP is about the same. That’s 30 seconds for the PC itself (the BIOS) to boot up, plus a minute for the Windows operating system to boot. Sometimes, you need to reboot Windows (e.g. when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS, too. However, the default is to reboot both. (That’s called doing a “cold boot,” rather than a “warm boot.”) There’s a trick that works on both XP and Vista to get it to do a warm boot instead, thus saving you 30 seconds per cycle.” The trick is to hold down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart. Windows Vista: Select Start, then hover over the right arrow that is to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears that contains “restart” as one of it’s choices. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “restart” choice. Windows XP: Select Start. Select “Shut Down…”. Change the drop-down combo box under “What do you want the computer to do?” to “Restart”. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “OK” button. via Codejacked Share This [...] [...] Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC (Vista or XP) August 17th, 2007 by deepchannel Here’s a great tip to shave off a couple of precious seconds when rebooting your pc: “A modern PC with Vista Home Edition takes about one and a half minutes to boot. An older machine with XP is about the same. That’s 30 seconds for the PC itself (the BIOS) to boot up, plus a minute for the Windows operating system to boot. Sometimes, you need to reboot Windows (e.g. when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS, too. However, the default is to reboot both. (That’s called doing a “cold boot,” rather than a “warm boot.”) There’s a trick that works on both XP and Vista to get it to do a warm boot instead, thus saving you 30 seconds per cycle.” The trick is to hold down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart. Windows Vista: Select Start, then hover over the right arrow that is to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears that contains “restart” as one of it’s choices. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “restart” choice. Windows XP: Select Start. Select “Shut Down…”. Change the drop-down combo box under “What do you want the computer to do?” to “Restart”. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “OK” button. via Codejacked Share This [...]

]]> By: Justin http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/restarting-windows-without-restarting-your-pc-vista-or-xp-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2664 Justin Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:49:34 +0000 http://www.thatdamnpc.com/restarting-windows-without-restarting-your-pc-vista-or-xp/#comment-2664 Sorry, but this does not work any more. Windows 95, on supported hardware has this ability, but was still an unsupported feature. Justin Gredt Sorry, but this does not work any more.

Windows 95, on supported hardware has this ability, but was still an unsupported feature.

Justin Gredt

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