The 'secret sauce' behind Windows 95 fast restart trick is something I wish I knew 30 years ago

Back in the 1990s, my fellow PC chums and I thought we had stumbled across a magic trick with Windows 95, something that we ...
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Windows Once Had a Faster Restart Trick Using Shift + Restart

Microsoft explains how Shift + Restart once enabled a fast reboot in early Windows and why modern Windows no longer supports ...
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A Microsoft engineer reveals how Windows 95's 'secret' fast restart worked

Over on The Old New Thing blog, developer Raymond Chen explains what's going on when you hold down Shift and choose to ...

Windows 95 had a secret restart trick most people never knew

Raymond Chen recently shared another interesting tidbit about the inner workings of Windows 95. The original 32-bit consumer operating system had a "secret" fast-restart feature, which ...