Reboot vs. Restart Windows

[Joey Officer]

What you are referring to was the 'soft' restart.  If you held the SHIFT 
key (either I think) during a 'Shutdown -> Restart;  it would restart 
only the windows software.  This worked on all versions of windows 
through windows Me! ... It does not work on any current version of 
Windows, due to the fact that current versions are built around Windows 
NT, which did not have a DOS foundation.  Windows 95/98/ME were 
applications that ran on top of DOS, similar (atleast in concept) to the 
really old Windows 3.x days (and older if you can think back that far).

Having said that, there isn't an official way (that I'm aware of anyway) 
to restart windows without restarting the system itself.  However, I do 
know a little trick that is supposed to be just as good.  Open the task 
manager, and find 'explorer.exe' in the process list.  Perform an 
end-task on this process.  It should reload the windows system files, or 
atleast thats my understanding.

Good luck all.
joey


Benjamin Madore wrote:
> So as to add to the confusion...
>
> At one point, and maybe still, you could "Restart Windows" without rebooting
> your computer. If I recall correctly, it would drop to the subsystem (DOS?)
> and a message stating "Restarting Windows..." would display on your screen.
>
> So, restarting was not necessarily rebooting at one time. I don't know how
> this plays out, though, as either would do what you wanted.
>
> BTW, can one say they restarted Cygwin without restarting windows? Does that
> make sense?
>
> On Mon, October 30, 2006 7:56 am, Mike Maxwell said:
>   
>> Certainly 'reboot' is used a lot.  But the standard Ms Windows message
>> is 'restart Windows.'  And I don't know the history, but I would not be
>> surprised if the reason it started being used (around the time of Win95
>> or Win98, from what I can tell) is that it is less ambiguous--exactly
>> the point I've been trying to make.
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