Thread: Restarting Windows Without Restarting 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.

Good thing will try it for sure


Doesn't works even for me and where to follow this instructions.

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.

If u click on start you get logoff and turn off computer and when u click turn off 3 options come Standby, Turn off and Restart. After that pressing shift and clicking rstart does not works. Please let me know which version o XP are you using in which these steps to be followed

Can you tell me if it has actually worked for you. Coz it did not work for me either in win 9x PC or XP PC.And some online searches claim that its a myth

will try later !!

I used it when I had Win98. Doesnt work for me in XP SP2/SP3 or VISTA. Any way I'll try again and post back.

Doesn't work for me:|

I tried as said

I tried with both XP (in my PC) and Vista (laptop). sorry to say, did not work for me

That is just plain stupid. It will NOT work.

This is an old idea that doesn't work currently.
It used to work before in win95/98.

Check this link out

http://www.codejacked.com/accidental-hoax-revealed/

-F

Yes doesn't work in XP or Vista.

Doesnt work for me. Any other method perhaps ? Holding Shift key does not work.

this ain't any new trick i guess... this has been there from the days of win 98. yes it kinda reboots the os ... but its almost useless... as none of ur RAM , graphics mem other registers etc gets flushed... u wont notice any speed difference after the reboot...

First of all.. it dosnt work in Windows XP.

Secondly in Windows 98 too "it kinda reboots the os ... but its almost useless... as none of ur RAM , graphics mem other registers etc gets flushed... u wont notice any speed difference after the reboot..."
(as said above)

I've seen some webpages claiming cold boot is possible in XP but have no idea how.

Bootvis is one such application which was designed keeping in mind to cold boot XP in 30 seconds.

An interesting read for xp tweaking (although old) : Windows XP Tweaking – Startup and General Performance Tweaks: Page 1

Originally Posted by cool_techie_tvm

Bootvis is one such application which was designed keeping in mind to cold boot XP in 30 seconds.

An interesting read for xp tweaking (although old) : Windows XP Tweaking – Startup and General Performance Tweaks: Page 1

Thanks for the info.... will check it out sometime.