Cool Win98 Tip, I want it to work in Win2k, HELP!

[setaanbomb]

When you hold down the SHIFT key while selecting START -> SHUTDOWN -> RESTART, windows will do a quick reboot(stop windows, start windows, not powerdown).

I want to be able to do this windows 2000. Oh how this would save me time. I know win2k is built on NT, but it may work. Help me if you can.

 

[paulip88]

I highly doubt it. What the shift-restart thing does in Win98 is just shut down window and then open it back up, never exiting DOS. Since NT does not run on top of DOS, there is no reason that this would work.

However, they may have put something in there that would allow something similar, although any such shortcut would probably not reload the kernel and thusnot be a true reboot. It would essentially work the same as logging out and back in except that it would halt services (assuming such a beast exists).

 

[StuckMojo]

ditto. no DOS = no corresponding concept in NT

 

[Enigma]

No such luck! Didn't work in NT4 as well.

 

[AndyHui]

A Win9x shift-restart simply shuts down and restarts the 32-bit portion of the OS, leaving the 16-bit DOS still there.

This will not work in Win2K as it has no 16-bit portion to drop out to.