How do you restart winXP without restarting the whole pc?

[goblue420]

I remember back in the win98 days if u held left shift while selecting restart it would restart only windows, not the whole pc....well is there a way to do this with xp? my pc is on 24/7 and sometimes win needs to restart for obvious reasons but my pc also has issues with a full reboot so i was wondering if there was a way to restart just win without rebooting the entire pc

 

[Nothinman]

Not possible. That only worked with Win9X because it basically ran on DOS, NT is it's own complete OS.

 

[BlueWeasel]

WinXP boots fast anyway -- probably just as fast as Win98 did when you used the Shift method.

 

[tart666]

terminating the "explorer" process might do what you want... reloads the registry at least

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: tart666
terminating the "explorer" process might do what you want... reloads the registry at least

That's a useful thing to keep in mind...

-Por

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: tart666
terminating the "explorer" process might do what you want... reloads the registry at least

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm 99% sure that killing/restarting explorer doesn't reload the registry. Explorer is just the shell. Might accomplish what he wants to do but doesn't reload the registry.

 

[mikecel79]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm 99% sure that killing/restarting explorer doesn't reload the registry. Explorer is just the shell. Might accomplish what he wants to do but doesn't reload the registry.

Correct. This does not reload the registry. That is only done on bootup.

 

[tart666]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin

Originally posted by: tart666 terminating the "explorer" process might do what you want... reloads the registry at least

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm 99% sure that killing/restarting explorer doesn't reload the registry. Explorer is just the shell. Might accomplish what he wants to do but doesn't reload the registry.

<S>the registry is loaded when the explorer starts. I will try to find a ref for you... </S>
I take it all back... does not seem to work for me, although a number of guides on the net claim it should...

 

[Ionizer86]

In any case, many crashes (the few that do happen) are due to explorer.exe, and I find that terminating it and rerunning it from the task manager helps the system come back up without needing to restart the whole PC.

 

[Nothinman]

Most of the registry is dynamic, but you have to restart the affected services for some of them. And this is a problem in Windows because certain things can't be restarted without restarting the whole OS, there's just too many interdependencies.

 

[bsobel]

<S>the registry is loaded when the explorer starts. I will try to find a ref for you... </S>
I take it all back... does not seem to work for me, although a number of guides on the net claim it should...

I know for certain that this is not correct.
Bill

 

[Bladesonfire]

Sorry to intrude, I really have no pennies to include in the matter, but I was just curious how a reboot causes problems with the computer... do the problems you have show up from a cold/hard boot?