What was the secret sauce that allows for a faster restart of Windows 95 if you hold the shift key? (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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[-] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd totally forgotten this trick - I used to use this when I was a kid after I heard about it. Was never quite sure if it was real because I remember also later being told to use it in Win 98 too and it didn't do anything afaik.

[-] rycee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Wow, I've never heard of this fast restart feature before. Did it disappear after Windows 95?

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

I don't recall but given the changes to the underlying components, I'd take it lasted at most up tp Windows 98.

[-] rycee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Very interesting and makes sense that it was something that was only possible due to the particulars of Windows 9x.

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