Colin's Weekly Tip: Quick Restart

[Colin]

For those of you who are extremely impatient there's a way of restarting Windows without having to restart the actual PC... I know this has saved me a bit of time when trying out new registry tweaks and such. <BR><BR>First load up regedit (Start -> Run then type regedit and click the ok button). From there follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows NT -> CurrentVersion -> Winlogon. From there add/modify the EnableQuickReboot string value and change it to 1. Save exit and reboot your PC normally.<BR><BR>After that's done every time you want to reboot simply press Shift + Ctrl + Alt + Del and Windows will do a quick restart without rebooting.

[in54n3]

hey colin does this work on xp? cuz it wasnt working on mine <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">

[computerfreke911]

Same here. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">

[BlueBull]

So does this even work, or is it strictly for home or pro?

[Adttech]

Colin, I did not have that listed under Winlogon, so I added it, but it does not work.

[therealwesty]

I did a bit of poking around, and some testing. This tweak works on Windows 2000 and previous version of NT but does <b>not</b> work with Windows XP.

[atticusg47]

well thats pretty much pointless then