[Deke40]

I don't know if this has been posted or not. This is for restarting Windows only:

For the Windows "Restart!" (warm reboot) shortcut (all Windows 95/98 releases):
C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\USER.EXE,ExitWindowsExec
Note that you canNOT use RUNDLL32.EXE for this last command with Win98/98 SE because the GUI does NOT support this 32-bit DLL API redirect from the command line, and after all USER.EXE is a "plain" 16-bit executable.


For the Windows complete (cold) "Reboot!" shortcut (Windows 98/98 SE only):
C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL,SHExitWindowsEx 2

While I'm here, what is the difference between the so called (warm) and (cold reboot).

This info is courtsey of FORK_BOY on another forum.

[Monstrous Mi]

You can also hold down the Shift key while clicking Restart in the Shutdown Window.

[Deke40]

Instead of 3 clicks and two fingers I just click on F6 and Windows restarts. At 62 years old I try to conserve all the energy I can. Also as bad as I shake it is hard to control two fingers at once.

[Monstrous Mi]

Yes, your shortcut is faster. I'm 41, so I still have a few clicks left in me.

BTW, I just noticed your question about cold and warm boot. A warm boot is a restart without the power going off while a cold boot is from a powered off state. This means that a cold boot starts with the memory being cleared while a warm boot does not. It used to be important for the older processors like the Intel 8086 but I'm not sure it has much meaning today.

And to further muddy the waters, there used to be a software reset and a hardware reset. This is stuff I did in engineering classes and I really don't deal with that level of detail today. I'm too busy trying to keep the young engineers on the straight and narrow.

[Deke40]

MM-Thanks for the info. Forgive me for being a little dense but I just got my first computer 2 years ago and have had to learn on my own.

The way I understand this is if you use the second mentioned shortcut that is a cold boot and the power goes off. I know that if I surf a lot the resource meter goes down in the 60's and I can shut down and it will come back up in the low 90's. Is that what you mean when you say a cold boot clears the memory. Thanks again.

Enjoy being in your 40's because it doesn't seem that long ago that I was there.